Heaven is to be at peace with things.

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.

Heya, Arlene. What’s shakin’?” Cotton greeted.“Don’t shift some of this weight, everything, ” Arlene replied.

I think I'm a big romantic, so being part of those stories, that’s such a big part of anyone’s life in general, that’s such a humane thing.

I had always been able to make people laugh in school, so I really developed that and worked on it and I got pretty good at it and it turned into a career.

So I bought a forty-four magnum, it was solid steel cast, and in the blessed name of Elvis, well I just let it blast 'til my TV lay in pieces.

There's a huge emotional component to weight loss.

Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.

The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.

In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.

Bran was stripping her futon down to the bare mattress when she entered her apartment. It was sort of like watching the president mowing the White House lawn or taking out the trash.

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.