The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

I honestly have no idea how to live without you.

Preaching the Gospel in a brutal way is like telling your wife that you love her while she gets a punch right in her face.

Whoever forsake the deeds of darkness, shall be forgiven by the Lord God.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

I am brave, though I am alone.

That all you got...Bub?

The guy who's in charge isn't going to be the front man, ever.

You are designed by God not to blend in, but to stand out

takes a devil to make a decent angel.