The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.

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 have got what it takes to live your dreams.

One of Obama’s greatest failures will be his legacy of making millions completely dependent on government handouts, not work....So sad.

Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.

There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.

It took me longer to get through this site, than to get outside at Waimea.

All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.

The older I get, the better I used to be.

God blessed me with a lot of heart and no height, and I'll take that any day.

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

If a species is diverse, it can survive and prosper. If a species is homogeneous, it is vulnerable.