Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.

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.

life doesn't have to be perfect to be enjoyed

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

Unless people are convinced about what you are asking them to do, they are not going to make it happen.

I was married to the number one douchebag of all time.

We have got to extend the hand of friendship, we have got to take the peacelines down brick by brick

I usually just have one cat. It is difficult, but I have my one cat that he'll travel with me if it's appropriate, if I'm not going overseas.

[Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact.

It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.

Obviously, everybody wants to see Tiger [Woods] come back, but I think it's in a really good place with how much talent is out there and the exciting finishes you have, week in, week out.

She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.