Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

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.

Continue to exercise your imagination and it will take you higher. Continue to exercise your will and it will take you higher. Continue to exercise your conscience and it will take you higher.

I have no idea what you are doing...who you really are, but there's something about you that makes me think you are good for me." ~Raina

I wish my brain had an off switch. Maybe that way I could get some sleep.

The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.

Genius is nothing more than an extraordinary manifestation of the body.

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

Skype seems the best maybe, as international phone rates are silly. And service is service, that's definitely true. Any time there are two people involved, one of them becomes a server.

My greatest strength is that I have no weaknesses.

Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment.

It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about.