If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.

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 will find your horizons expanding and your thought processes becoming more creative. That is true mind power!

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

I hope and pray that mother nature is leaving us alone to get on with the job of cleaning up and recovering from this event.

I can't bear to hear a woman talk baby talk.

Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe and to act wisely.

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.