The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.

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.

Come, let us learn just to love, just to understand, and just to gain a higher consciousness.

We all encounter things that we can't perhaps change and that's OK because surely there are many other things that we can.

It is better to die than carry the burden of expectations, you die every moment then, bearing situations you are not supposed to put up with.

I fully understand that not all of the companies will succeed and that there will be losses along the way, but this is very much the norm with early stage investment.

Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing with it.

All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

Though I'm a congresswoman by title, a politician I've never been.

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.