Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?

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.

He didn't see the look his brothers shared or overhear the vow they made to one another--that if any one of the four of them were to make it back from Ticonderoga, it would be Iain.

Paris has always seemed ... the only city where you can live and express yourself as you please.

In America, our differences matter, but our country matters more. That's the attitude I wanted to take to the Senate.

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed.

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

You know, my movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.

Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

Shah Rukh is as passionate and as enthusiastic as ever.