Man's most serious activity is play.

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.

This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!

Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.

Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.

In my everyday life, I can be as square as I want. But when it comes to movies and telling stories, I can't. I've got to be radical, and on some level, that's what I like to do.

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

No one can self-actualize without self-actualizing those around them.

True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.

It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.

When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry seems to help, I know. Downtown.

When you're grieving that's not the time to be brave or strong, you need to let it show