America is a young country with an old mentality.

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.

Mr. Cupples came out of his reverie. "I think, " he said, "I will have milk and soda-water." "Speak lower!" urged Trent. "The head-waiter has a weak heart, and he might hear you.

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life time for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.

The spouse of Christ cannot be defiled; she is uncorrupted and chaste.

I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

I have always hated flying. The idea of it is an affront to nature. People are meant to stay on the ground.

To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them

Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.