I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

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.

Keep striving, for God gives His hardest battles to His strongest soldiers.

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.

I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

It causes me great pain to sue the company I work for. Nevertheless, I had to do it. Suffice it to say, there's a dispute and I believe I haven't been given what is mine.

You can't change where you started, but you can change the direction you are going. It's not what you are going to do, but it's what you are doing now that counts.

The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States.

Laistry....I can't even say that. What would you call them in English?" "Canadians.

The learning of the Christian man ought to begin with the fear of God.