I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made me free, from world to world, from all worlds carried 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.

It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?

But the scent of the good is blown against the wind: A good man perfumes all directions.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years I would say the penitentiary thank you.

To all the women and the men who ever loved me just a little.

You tell them - you tell them there's a cost.....Every decision we make in life, there's always a cost.

I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.

And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.