Columbus gave the world another world.

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 waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't.

It is the man who loves reading books who gets to know himself

As our parents often say, share your God-given gifts and talents to help others

If the sun isn't shining where you are, be the sunshine where you are.

The destination of life is this eternal moment.

And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!

You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.

Real’ is a dirty word in this place.

I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.

If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.