Everyone is a genius at least once a year a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

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.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

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.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid - one must also be polite.

If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.

The people who control America today make decisions like drunkards. They do not understand what they are doing at all.

The safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government.

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

I'm probably the only member of the 'Bachelor' cast without an agent!

Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings everyday.

Bless and prosper those around you. Bless and prosper yourself

For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.

I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.