It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.

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 would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds.

You must value the business in order to value the stock.

In Canada the cancer death rate is 16% higher than in the U.S. because of rationing of medical care. It takes an eight week wait to get radiation therapy for cancer.

Everything I do is about women honouring themselves, treating themselves and taking care of themselves.

I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.

There is no material universe. There is no reality. All that exists are images.

The hardest thing about getting started, is getting started.

People will continue to search for answers to universal and perplexing problems. But to find meaningful answers, one must first know what questions to ask.

The American Dream is ownership … a house, a car, a vacation home and, even better, your own business

You can't always let people do their own thing.