I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.

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.

Your brightest light will take you to your greatest heights.

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

Ours is the country where in order to sell your product you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.

Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.

Life is always full of dangers and I don't think one should avoid dangers.

That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.

There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.

View the events you consider obstacles as perfect opportunities to test your resolve and find your purpose.