There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.

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.

Beside her I felt grey, like she had all the colours I'd ever need.

The journey from Ignorance to Awareness is nothing but perceptual bliss to actual bliss

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.

When people are worried about the future, they don't take trips to Hawaii.

As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.

Hold your tongue if you'd like to keep it." - Jaques

Love is the first step towards the divine, surrender is the last. And two steps is the whole journey.

Lies were like acid, corrosive: They could dissolve trust in a heartbeat.