Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

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.

Keep making a difference out there! Don't let the noise around you distract you from listening to the voice within you.

My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

I'm an outgoing person when it comes to friends, but when it comes to being confident and sexy, the sexy word scares me.

Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles.

Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.

I can't concern myself with what's going on with the club or what the media is writing. If you pay attention to those things, that's when you get yourself in trouble.

I would have done anything to feel real again.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.