Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty!

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.

The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.

To judge a man means nothing more than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show.

In writing there is art - and in art there is craft ...

No point in living a life less ordinary if you don't know what the other side looks like.

When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present.

All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.

I am going to seek a grand perhaps.

I like very strong guys. Successful guys. Not necessarily financially.

The left has so corrupted everything it's touched. Even its highest ranking intellectual members are loony.

It is not the custom of kings to kill kings.

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.