It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

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.

There is always another way, make sure you look in all directions before deciding to give up

We can't help everyone but everyone can help someone.

My father's plan was, we were going to grow up and travel the world.

That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

I have some good stories yet to tell.

You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me—and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely.

I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.

Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world that might cease to exist.

It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.