Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

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.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby, moistened lips once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.

I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.

At least I'm not playing other people for a change. It's a very odd place to be... I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

I like producing beats, and I like rapping, too. I have a program for the PC, and I can hook my keyboard to it.

I don't bow down to the federal government.

When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?

I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.

There's no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we're happy; end of story.