There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

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.

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.

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

When you're alone is when you can count your friends.

I am but God's finger, John. If he would condemn Elizabeth, she will be condemned.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.

Of course I'm sure half the people there hate me and half the people like me

I assure you, you will never survive on your wits alone.

In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.

I killed a guy, maybe two. Possibly three. I have one power. Not two or three or four. Just one. I met a girl, and she changed everything.

Guitars are like women. You'll never get them totally right.

I'm the wacky one. Wacky. Wacky.