With most people doubt about one thing is simply blind belief in another.

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.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

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.

I believe in love the verb, not the noun.

Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life’s journey…

Lets stop worrying about future and lets start enjoying the present.

People either buy nuclear power, nuclear reactors from outside, and don't train their own men, or they just don't go into nuclear power at all, they are so afraid of it.

We (the FBI) are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.

You can put it another way, of course; you always can.

Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul.

I think in the darkest moments, we need a break.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.