In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.

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.

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

There's no map to human behaviour.

I'd always been a fan growing up, and in high school, I was really into Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

Loss provides an opportunity to take inventory of our lives, to reconsider priorities, and to determine new directions.

To survive, the people in neighborhoods are going to have to secede.

If a country puts its entire focus on making sure that the education system improves, then that's the kind of progress that you can see.

I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

He killed them with their love.