The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

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.

You are intelligent if you know what you do not know.

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so

I think my father felt very strongly that when there was bigotry anywhere, prejudice anywhere, all of us lose out.

I'd learned a long time ago that one of the finest weapons in my arsenal was my ability to invade personal space

A dog's spirit dies hard.

I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.

Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with them. Dogs love us unconditionally, not for our bodies or bank accounts.

I think when Aristotle said that man is a political animal, he was really saying that man is a pack animal.

A real relationship is like a river; the deeper it gets the less noise it makes.