Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

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.

There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.

Noah got a word from God then built upon that word. Then when the storm came he stood on what he built according to the word of God!

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.

A boy has never wept...nor dashed a thousand kin

I like a lot of artists but I think the one that touched me the most was probably Tupac, coming up. Cause that was my generation, so Tupac was mine.

Our attitude at the beginning of a task will affect its outcome more than anything else.

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

I was a big 'X-Files' fan. I always lamented that I never got to be on 'The X-Files'.

Vanity is often the unseen spur.