To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

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.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.

Life is a lot more easier when you are living it to impress your positive inner-self. Most people are quite hard to impress

No one likes incomplete story, so does the God :-)

No more bells ringing in the middle of the afternoon demolishing the rest of the day. No more waiting for the situation to change.

The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.

It doesn't matter in any game of rugby how many points the opposition scores, as long as we score more!

Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I'll stop the whole production, "Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody."

A small nation, faced with the denial of its sovereignty — indeed, of its very existence — reminded us that the price of freedom is high but never so costly as the loss of freedom.

I've always loved being at the eye of the storm creatively with people that I find exciting and glamorous. So sometimes I got sidetracked in my career and maybe I would have done more TV or film.