To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

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.

When I look inside myself, I find I am to blame, For everything that I've done wrong, And said others were to blame.

You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.

You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.

the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

I think the anti-smoking business is a yuppie invention-an extension of the concept that "we'll always be young, rich, and healthy.

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

Some feelings are stronger than fear: love, longing, desire.

That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.

Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.

We play by the rules, we play hard and we prepare hard. The work ethic of our team and preparation is like no other in my opinion and we try to make our fans in America proud.