Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.

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.

Get up, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. You kneel before no one. Least of all me.

She was not a vegetarian and knew firsthand animals had to die for her delectation, but she never liked to think about it.

A great quality of your preparation will manifest on your performance.

I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale.

I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.

I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.

I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The photographer works with both his eyes and his mind.

This is Earth. Isn't it hot?