Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

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.

A lie is still a lieeven if it’s disguisedas the truth.

Maybe she was a wallflower. There was no shame in that. Especially not if one enjoyed being a wallflower.

Laughter is an instant vacation.

I never thought, 'Oh God, I'm in Prince's shadow.' He'd been performing for years, and he was my teacher.

I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

I'd date a fan as long as she didn't scream in my face.

But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.