For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

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.

I'm Kieran. You must be a hell of a thief because you stole my heart from across the room,

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.

It's hard coming in here talking a big game. It's hard, it's hard. It's a lamb coming to the wolves and throwing meat at them.

The body is consuming energy when tense, and restoring energy when it is relaxed.

Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.

I don't care if Rick Ross is 40 years old -- he's a misguided 40-year-old person.

Everything in nature is resurrection.