We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

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.

A lot of people often forget that the main purpose of being in a circle is to continuously grow with it, and never to be held back by it.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge

Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

I want to sound like Christopher Cross in another ten years, and be totally proud of it.

I'd be really interested in making a dramatic, low-key 3D film.

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.

I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.

Right now, if there's a gender gap problem, it's not Ronald Reagan with women; it's with Walter Mondale with men.

It's strange, because it seems that society is kind of promoting or nurturing this kind of ostracized existence. People are kind of very much in their own little worlds.