Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

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.

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

God is faithful even when we are unfaithful.

The truth will set us free. But freedom is cold and empty and frightening, and lies can often be warm and beautiful.

To be ignorant is to be in the dark

The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.

I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.

Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.

If we're sitting at dinner and there's no conversation going on because everybody's got their head someplace else in their iPhone, that's a family problem that needs to be solved.

The Inspiration You Seek Is Already Within You. Be Silent And Listen.

Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.