To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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.

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

Jason’s heart lifted when he saw Nico di Angelo on the front lines with the Greeks, slashing his way through a crowd of two-headed men.

If there is a soul, then it is a mistake to think that it is given to us completely created. It is created right here for a lifetime. Life is nothing but a long, painful process of creation.

I go to de One who says silver n gold is Mine

If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

Always I try to write about people. People are interested in other people always.

Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.

Maybe the heart is part of the mist. And that's all that there is or could ever exist. Maybe and maybe and maybe some more. Maybe's the exit that I'm looking for.

I want to show people there's more to me than they think.

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.