It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.

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.

Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

All men and women flee from the witnesses of their wrongdoings.

At that instant I became a blooming lotus flower. The water in which I flourished was a single teardrop from Nyx.

When my income exceeds my outgo, my upkeep will be downright easy.

Valour is nobleness of the mind.

We did six records, then six movies. Now we need to do six of something else, so we get 666 - and then our master Satan can return!

I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.

The new Pope, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is now Pope Francis the 1st. Francis was not his first choice for a name. But the Vatican wisely talked him out of Pope Boo Boo.

The mind is like a lake. It reflects eternity when it's very still. If ripples appear, lots of them, then the reflection is not clear. We lose the clarity of the perfect reflection.

To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.