The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

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.

Our life force is a form of flowing energy, a blast of verve renewed through our ongoing daily interactions and the inevitable collisions between the id and the ego.

Picking me up, Lucas lays me on a blanket of soft sand and says, "You have no idea what you do to me.

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith "thou shalt" to me is my mortal foe!

The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement

Limited government must come politically, not judicially.

Our situation, with global warming and air quality and all of that, has gotten to be catastrophic.

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.