It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies; for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.

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.

Believe, believe.

Punctuation are like road signs

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited, he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

We see what we see because we miss all the finer details.

I like a lot of other music and listen to a lot of other music, but one of the greatest things about the Grateful Dead is they played all the time.

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.

I don't like my physique at all.

Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind.

I just got to the point where I literally didn't want anyone else to do it.

There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.