The sophisticated concern about art sinks before a spontaneous love of reality, and I thank the photograph for being so transparent a vehicle for things.

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.

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.

I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life.

I feel the need to scream, and even if the scream is not answered, I find my sanity in the echo.

The tough thing about a campaign being over is, you lose your enemy.

The body remembers what your mind forgets.

There are two kinds of people in the world: Submissive and rebellious. The problem of the world is that majority is in the first category!

As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing else will ever change it.

Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them.

The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?