Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.

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.

Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the other side are the men who can. And not one in a hundred will cross that line. Will you?

You don't have to go with the crowd.

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe.

I could not ask for more than the love you give me... Cause it's all I've waited for... and I could not ask for more.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

You have been created by God and for God, and someday you will stand amazed at the simple yet profound ways He has used you even when you weren't aware of it.

Conscience makes egotists of us all.

Do you want to know the secret of life? If you want to have everything, don’t want anything. Everything will run after you.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.