For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

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.

Be excellent in your own terms.

War's a racket. No doubt. But war is a racket for the politicians, not the soldiers.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.

So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.

Fear may fill our world, but it doesn’t have to fill our hearts.

I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that it's the truth." -Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Misery and shame are nearly allied.

Time is the seed of the Universe.