Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

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.

Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them.

Inevitably, Saul's faraway heart would turn to faraway actions.

Comedians on the stage are invariably suicidal when they get home.

The ballance distinguisheth not betweene gold and lead.

I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own.

Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me.

Behind every great man is an even greater woman.

Few people realize that luck is created.

Increasingly, it's people not interested in National Geographic.

I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely.