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.

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.

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 act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a button, cannot program it.

Today Relative to Yesterday or Tomorrow The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.

I feel bad sometimes because I secretly hope New Orleans gets nailed again.

I'd confused need with love and love with sacrifice.

Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them.

I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.