Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

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.

If you're not creating, you're disintegrating.

It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.

We think we have to do something to be grateful or something has to be done in order for us to be grateful, when gratitude is a state of being.

Kuwait is the mother and father, Earth and it's supplies. She is the past, present and future.

A band is like a family. There's love and hate.

It's confusing. I've had so many wives and so many children I don't know which house to go to first on Christmas.

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.

If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes.

The art helps, between the acting gigs. I feel that if I can sing in Mamma Mia! then goddammit, I can hang a few paintings, give people lots of cocktails, and have a good time.

Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.