Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.

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.

That is what chronic illness is . . . a disconnect between what our souls can do and what our bodies can do.

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed from all eternity than to conceive a Being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

I have lots of older siblings, and as they started to leave the house, I went from cooking once a week to twice, three times, and so on. After a while, it was just like making the bed.

I have a pretty easy life.

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!

Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world.

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.