Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

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.

Hello! Look at me! I am your reflection.

Self-knowledge liberates us from the frustration of ignorance, while simultaneously nurturing and supporting our capacity for intelligence. Objectivity

Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.

There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.

Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again.

Nutrition is the only remedy that can bring full recovery and can be used with any treatment. Remember, food is our best medicine!

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.

I feel my absolute best physically, mentally and spiritually when I'm surfing every day.

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.

Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.