Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.

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 refuse to believe in three things: cash, clock, and calendar. You should never be enslaved by these three.

Live with the assumption that every day it will rain. If it does, you were right. If it doesn’t, you were fortunate.

I try and picture you reading this -- there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to you, connect in my mind with you.

Sounds are vibrations and the more you can put into that vibration, the more you can get out, action and reaction, that's the thing to tell the people.

Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.

Our idea of a real problem is someone else's idea of an ultimate dream. Put the 'problem' in perspective