The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.

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.

Let us play hide and seek in a mountain which is like a women's back.

It is those who are different that make the biggest difference in the world.

Our feelings are the wings of our intuition.

Your life is the outcome of all the choices you make

My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes

We need both to aspire and accomplish. Without a vision for your life, without a sense of purpose, you will begin to die a slow death.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

In my experience, the best directors I've worked with hired people for a purpose. They hire them with trust. There's not many notes. There's confidence and support.

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

The future isn't a place that we're going to go, it's a place that you get to create.