By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

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.

Work and acquire and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

The novel and the film of 'The Color Purple' are both works of the imagination that make claim to historical truth.

I've learned in my older age how to let it go when things don't work out, because something incredible that I don't know about yet is probably right around the corner.

I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!

Whenever I think about the budgetary problems, I think about the problems of Errol Flynn ... reconciling net income with gross habits.

I know when things are going to get me a little nervous, because nervous to me feels good.

Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.

I improvised my life along the way - I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.

I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to stay in the painting as it develops.

There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.