Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

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.

If somebody tells you a rule, break it. That's the only way to move things forward.

What passes thelips goes straight to the hips.

I'd rather be eaten by a dragon.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

The Commerce Clause has already been inflated so much that we basically can't do anything without the government's permission.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

People love to say we get paid a lot of money to play a game, but it stopped being a game when you start getting paid.

When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.

As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.