Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

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 searched my mind for the right visualization. I knew it had to start with what I put in my head. That is where all my accomplishments are formed.

If a ship is strong, the ocean's tides do not trouble it.

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

I had a great run on Babylon 5. It was a lot of fun.

In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.

The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.

As a person, you want to feel like you're giving back. That's something I've always enjoyed doing.

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.

Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.

The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors.