The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

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.

So you are vampire then, my beauty?”- Damian (Marked Book #1) page 160

The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53

What do you do if you're in the car and your girlfriend touches your crotch then asks you to remind her to get kitchen scissors?

I'm not really a Spider-Man fan. I'm more of a Batman guy.

I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.

My attention is the most valuable resource I have. I can protect it with an information diet.

If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish.

And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!

What's a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.