Fear first created the gods.

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.

But [he] had lost god, and all his family and friends were staying behind with his imaginary friend. A silly dream goes away and takes with it your whole real life.

Facebook gives people an illusory sense of being LIKED.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

Well, I think that a lot of times when you're working on a film, there aren't really opportunities to get to know all the people you have to work with.

We are all creatures of the stars.

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.

Unconditional love is all you have. You can't overdose on love, you never can. It's a beautiful thing.

I am very close with my parents, they are very amazing, so loving, so cool, and really valued art.

Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign.

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.