There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.

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 key to productive life is a complete care for the body, soul, spirit and mental well being.

I had a dream. And it came true.

I spend 80% of my time in my restaurants. Taping my TV shows doesn't take much time, and then they get aired a lot. That's the thing people don't realize.

If we never had any storms, we couldn't appreciate the sunshine.

Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.

Let's put it this way, I like number seven.

The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.

Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.