The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.

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.

The monster nevers dies.

anyone who has no feelings for animals has a dead heart.

Change comes by substituting good habits for less desirable ones. You mold your character and future by good thoughts and acts.

If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?

Once when Larry the Cable Guy was on Conan's show, Conan O'Brien was so offended by Larry's material, he had to walk away from the desk he was so offended.

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home.

You are only as big as the dreams you dare to live.

I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands.

I was wasting my time, praying for love. For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.