For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.

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 the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.

Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.

Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.

If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can hear it all.

I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.

When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate

I'm not really interested in courting controversy, but I am interested in exploring issues that other people would deem to be controversial.

You might be a redneck if your beer can collection is considered a tourist attraction in your home town.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

Transformations is the word. We can do the work of transformation only in the present moment