Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

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.

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as a director.

Anyone who expects a person to change something as private and personal as who they hold in their arms at night needs to change their own judgmental attitude.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

I don't like to be second in anything. I was trying, I just wasn't going anywhere.

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

If you want a friend, you don't buy a friend, Eric, you earn a friend through love and trust and respect.