With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

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.

Falling in love is a wonderfully terrifying sensation.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.

The only possible reason the Republicans have declared a war on women is they must think women have oil.

Staying in a hotel this time. They put me up in a little bit of a shithole. Yeah. Just this side of rinky dink. The first 7 floors are a homeless shelter, but I'm on 8.

Sometimes God offends our minds in order to reveal our hearts.

I'm not going to talk about my private life with a total stranger, unless I feel like I need to. Why would I? I don't.

old folks is the nation.

We are ready to compromise. We are ready to take calculated risks, but for a peace that will give us security.

The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.