Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

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.

An honest smile is an icebreaker.

...She says with that mistyfar-away look in her eyes. Like conjunctivitis.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

The Denver Post has actually hired an editor to promote pot.

The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.

I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair. I think that would be funny.

And that's what got me to the piano, that's what got me up in the morning: a blank piece of paper and a hope to have something by the end of the day.

The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.