Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

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.

True lovers spend half of their life dreaming to get their beloved and half with nightmares losing them.

The treasure of those moments Is sealed somewhere down Only you can unlock it The hope is still alive.

No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

I wouldn't say I'm a mummy's girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of her as a woman. I was very much a daddy's girl.

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

It doesn't feel like you're preaching, if you can say something in a joke.

The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.