Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

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.

You really shouldn't say I love you unless you mean it. But if you mean it you should say it a lot. People forget.

A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

You can bite me if you want. I want you to.

We had a very good relationship. Very good. I liked [Sonny Ramphal]. I thought he was a genuine man.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.

Nobodys life is as romantic as it is in fiction.

We don't talk about planes flying. We talk about them crashing.

If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-- Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?