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.

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.

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.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

... the way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives.

Money ain't everything.

Just saw American Sniper. Powerful. Another view of Coming Home. Bradley Cooper sensational. Bravo Clint Eastwood.

The power is within you. It always has been. How far are you willing to expand the horizons of your thinking and stir that power awake?

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

It's not the length of the word; it's how well you use it!

I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too.

I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.

I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in life and your amusements and recreations are only to help you along in that work.