One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire being.

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.

A los mortales os hace falta compañía porque tenéis tristeza, deseos y un tiempo limitado de vida.

Education will teach you ephemeral things. God will teach you wonders.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

My looks had gone from well-kempt cheerleader to apocalyptic disasterpiece.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.

When all else fails, go for the ego.