“Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.”

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.

Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.

The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

One must care about a world one will not see.

To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.

The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

People will never, ever forget what happened and how it happened, and it is my hope that we are on our way to greater change.

If we never forget the reasons we started playing in the first place, we’ll never be slowed down.

Sometimes we forget what we have overcome.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

I don’t think you should ever take life so serious that you forget to play.

The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.