The earth has its music for those who will listen.

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.

The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!

Why torture yourself when life will do it for you?

The biggest thing for me is the self-satisfaction of winning the race. I don't care about who gets the most attention. I've achieved something that's very special to me.

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

The first thing any coaching staff must do is weed out selfishness. No program can be successful with players who put themselves ahead of the team.

Before my mother's diagnosis with Alzheimer's, I had heard of the disease, but hadn't known anyone who had suffered from it.

Love brings up everything unlike itself.

House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment.

Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.