There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.

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.

Dare to dream.Dare to reach beyond the stars.

Her memories got dizzy and fell out of her head.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.

If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.

Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.

I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.

My makeup is usually left over from the night before.

Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.