To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

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.

Live your life, it will leave you behind.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

A throne is God's purpose for you; a cross is God's path for you; faith is God's plan for you.

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many.

It's not so much what the job gives you, it's what you give to the job.

I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.

I've been married for four years, and I'm still finding out things about my husband.

Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.