He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.

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'm not greedy at all. Sometimes I pinch myself because of what I've got.

Jesus is not a candle. A company in South Dakota is selling candles with the scent of Jesus. You light one and your friends says, Christ, what's that smell?

Stay positive and do whatever makes you happy.

Cultivate visibility because attention is currency.

If I announce something i'm making sure I'm doing it.

I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?

I don't know what a natural thought process is.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

The primordial fire of reality is going to burn through the hull of our little ego spaceship, and scatter us like stars.

When you are famous, you never can be sure why somebody's being nice. You just have to develop a very good sixth sense. I call it my bullshit detector.