The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

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.

pada akhirnya yang pergi akan kembali, entah pada pelukan, atau pada masing-masing kenangan

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie.

If you’re worried about giving your secrets away, you can share your dots without connecting them.

We all played bad before we played good.

Say what you want before the fight but when it's done, you accept the result.

The road is more important than the goal.

One of the best aids to freedom is asking God for a lot of help-and asking often.

Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.

I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun.