Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.

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've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.

I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation.

Aphrodisiacs come in many forms: food, drink, the internet.

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

There were always jokes about Hillary Clinton channeling Eleanor Roosevelt, but Eleanor Roosevelt was really instrumental at the UN, and would want to meet with various other delegates.

If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.

I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.

Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality.

While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.