A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.

The truth is, there are not two kinds of people. There's only one: the kind that loves to divide up into gangs who hate each other's guts.

The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.

If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I'm sure I won't be able to resist coming back and doing it.

Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken.

Live a little. Laugh a little. Love a little. Happiness will find you in a big way.

If thy daughter marry well, thou hast found a son; if not, thou hast lost a daughter.

My two sisters and I sang all the time. Whenever we cleaned the kitchen, we sang in three-part harmony.

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

No woman is a more vibrant instrument in the hands of the Lord than a woman of God who is thrilled to be who she is.