How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!

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 remember trying to work out like crazy to get rid of all of my womanly features because I thought they made me fat.

We honor the heritage of all who come here, no matter where they come from, because we trust in our country's genius for making us all Americans - one nation under God.

Today I didn't even have to even use my A.K ! I got to say it was a good day

Most of us are only willing to call 5% of our present information into question any one point.

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

Man is always exploited through fear.

A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright