The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

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.

When we pray, we pray according God's word which helps us to grow in faith.

If solitude feels painful, it's only because we don't know how to be alone.

Encouragement is the engine of life.

I guess what they say is true. Anything the government wants to hide, they stick it in New Mexico

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be.

A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of the cosmos too remote to feel its heart throb.

For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.

What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.