I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.

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.

Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.

When Jarod Kintz gets married, I want to wear his grandpa to the ceremony, telling everyone we're Siamese twins from the future-past. Meow.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.

I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue.

We ask advice but we mean approbation.

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.

I'm also inspired by great art and people who create and contribute rather than destroy.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.