Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

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 realized that today is the tomorrow you talked about yesterday? It is your responsibility to change your life for the better.

Every negative effect needs a positive cure (solution)

Just as the world cannot live on wars, so people cannot on revolutions

If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.

There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.

Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband's face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the cheek, and sat down to supper, declaring it to be the best face in the world.

We are suffering from a kind of slow-motion barbarization from within.

I can honestly say that being a United States senator has been the honor of my life.

People can make arguments from the Bible if they want to. But I want them to see that they should also give arguments that all reasonable citizens might agree to.

You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.