A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

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.

If your actions don’t reflect your goals… and your behavior doesn’t reflect your company’s vision… then you’re not a leader

...the majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves.

Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

I still think we are smart enough to not destroy planet Earth, our only home.

I know when things are going to get me a little nervous, because nervous to me feels good.

When you take your troubles to God, you may have them but they don't have you.

I can't think of anything more horrible than sharing what I'm doing all day!

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

If you melt dry ice in a pool and go swimming, will you get wet?

I think most Coloradans would agree that our state is the most beautiful in the nation, and the water flowing through our borders is its life blood.