It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

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 biggest game you will ever play is the game in your mind. Master your mind, master your world.

Laughter is the best medicine

I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.

Paul Ryan is a nationally tested leader that is widely known and respected.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?

With faith come trials of faith, bringing increased faith.

Every goal is a highlight film.

When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.

Before Julia Child there was only onion dip.