Sometimes it seems that men--yes, and even women too!--if they believe in a thing strongly enough, they get a strength or endurance that they wouldn't have believe possible.

When a man can't sleep, he won't let anybody else sleep either. If he doesn't go off to dreamland the moment his head hits the pillow, he gets frightfully annoyed and won't stay in bed.

I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.

Wherever you find something extraordinary, you’ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.

We know that we can do it, but cannot describe in so many words how we do it, nor can we reduce it to a set of rules. At most, the observable facts of the indexing operation can be described.

A spark in the sun, this tiny flower has roots deep in the cool earth.

Sometimes we forget that sin really is optional.

I have an obsession with Milk Duds. Eating them tastes like heaven.

The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state. There is a higher state of the mind, when it takes up one object and excludes all others.

How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and then act accordingly?

I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.