Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.

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 am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.

He's a nightmare, " she said. "I can be, too." Rook answered, his red eyes glowing. "Just try me.

I bought properties inexpensively and made a lot of money. I began to think it was easy.

Stop thanking god for your parking spot. He had nothing to do with it, and if he did, I want nothing to do with him.

Come and see...place no head above your own

Most men talk too much. Much of my success has been due to keeping my mouth shut.

Class is classlessness.

Popularity is totally overrated.

You cannot take death for apostasy seriously and be working for peace.

Being in the uncomfortable zone is much better than staying in the cheese-less situation .