There is no cure for birth or 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.

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.

Sacrifice everything that is yours, to call up the humans in others.

There are hundreds of reasons to be kind, but only one that matters—because it’s who you are.

I wondered what it would be like to be just myself all the time, but my self seemed to be far away, and made up of all sorts of things that didn't really exist.

My past has shaped me, that's true of anyone.

Leather and tattoos, they were his cover, and she wondered what she’d find when she unwrapped him.

Much effort, much prosperity.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores.

Don't ever think that you can't change the past.

In these times of suffering prayer is of even more help.