In every man there is something of all 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.

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.

If the antisemites want to hate, let them hate, and let them go to hell.

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.

God cannot be grasped by the mind. If he could be grasped, he would not be God.

You don't have to tell people what they're doing wrong. They already know. Your job is to love them.

I've gotten to the place where I find life too short for if-only.

My wife can look at me in a certain way and I can tell by her eyes how she's feeling about me or when I should stop talking about something. It's kind of the way twins have their own thing.

We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is - if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta.