Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

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.

Creativity is like the light, the reason we see the light because the “switch” is on and the connection is made

SOLVE BY RESOLVE -Use lessons learned from failed attempts to reinforce commitment

But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

More depends on my walk than talk.

I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes.

If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.

California: The west coast of Iowa.

A youth is capable of bringing things together and changing the direction too. They can come together and bring changes. There is no need of breaking anything, but need is to bring changes.

If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.