The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

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.

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.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

I’m assuming you have a reason behind this irrational need to conform to this institution." (Eric)

I think we give human beings too much credit. We're primates, you know.

He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

There was no aphrodisiac more powerful than talking, no seduction more effective than curiosity.

In February 1953, I was making a second picture with Jeff Chandler, one called War Arrow. Jeff was a real sweetheart, but acting with him was like acting with a broomstick.

You can always quit, so why quit now.

The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified.