love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

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.

Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth, ” and when you do, they don’t believe you. What’s the point?

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

If so, I couldn't imagine how the opposite gender managed to get out of bed in the morning. They might be lovely to look at, but clear thinking wasn't their strong point.

A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.

I think you've got to have a depth, a deeper depth to take stand-up into acting, but I think it really helps you as a stand-up to home into different characters and stuff easily.

I’m always looking to improve. And every year I want to do better than the year before.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

America is definitely something I'm pretty excited about.

Simply being myself makes me feel vulnerable.

One day these will just be memories that I haveso I try to enjoy it as much as possible