The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

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.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

If you are alive, then you have a reason to smile.

I am a comedian but it's usually not a compliment to be called a prop comedian but I guess I sometimes use props. And I always confuse humorist with comedian. That's strange.

Look, girls don't care how many push-ups you can do. They just want to get high and wear flowers in their hair. Maybe steal a car.

People don't understand the pressure on me to look perfect.

I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven.

Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.

I mean I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag. But when you grit your teeth and stick it out until dawn!

In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.

I like to go and do something adventurous. I like to go out and do some sort of crazy activity.