A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.

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.

What if you weren't the person I hoped you were?That, more than anything, would have hurt the most.

Outsider means "I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain."

Start loving now, and you start Heaven now.

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music.

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.

Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player.

A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemies. He can go ahead and do anything as long as he believed in himself.