A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past according to his interest in the present.

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.

I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

He saw that it was the gaps that were important, the spaces between the threads which made the pattern, and not the threads themselves.

There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom lovers of honour lovers of gain.

One of the luxuries of a politican's life is that you see yourself as others see you.

You are what you think about all day.

A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities.

Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they would have done.

To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.

I am a toggler. I always have three or four projects going, short stories alongside novels and essays. When one project is terrible, there's somewhere else hopeful to look.

When we are victorious on a world scale I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of some of the largest cities of the world.