There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.

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.

Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.

I have a book! It's called 'How Does She Do It?' and it's 35 years on camera.

For some reason, I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame.

Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.

The same way I want them to take me seriously. I want them to look at my music as kind of like an open book to who I am inside.

The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors.

Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.

Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings.