Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

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.

Are we the wreck or the ship of God's Word?

Crises is the code that can open the gene of success for some.

When pain is intense, you are at a climax. You can then see the light of transcendence.

Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all.

I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.

To be honest I am not lookin to be romantic, already got someone at home

The Universe has a plan to make sure we don't ever stop learning, not only in our minds, but also in our hearts.

We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.

I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing.

Competing in gymnastics is the greatest reminder of being alive as a human being.