Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before.

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.

I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.

At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training.

Am I good enough to go to Heaven?

I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they're so successful. All you have to do is look at the stats defensively and at their rebounding and scoring.

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

Life is movement. Once you stop moving, you're dead. Choose life.

You must be a fundamentalist to be really successful in the market.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.

What the hell kind of family did I marry into?