Almost every wise saying has an opposite one no less wise to balance it.

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 writeNotFor the sake of gloryNot For the sake of fameNotFor the sake of successBut for the sake of my soul

When you refuse to entertain the possibility of a solution because you “know” it will not work, then you have successfully strengthened the problem at hand

I want to see how far I can go and how good I can be, whether it's in the classroom or on the football field.

I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.

To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering.

The perfection of life with a gun dog, like the perfection of an Autumn, is disturbing because you know, even as it begins, that it must end. Time bestows the gift and steals it in the process

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials

The key to happiness is to get the spirit and keep it.

I work with a lot of movie stars.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.