That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

No social stability without individual stability.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

You must daily communicate with God.

You wouldn't believe the things that go missing in these labs. Remind me to tell you the story about the radioactive spider sometime.

False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.

While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.

Home is where the heart is, no matter how the heart lives.

The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God

Spread abroad the name of Jesus in humility and with a meek heart; show him your feebleness, and he will become your strength.

When there's an important tournament going on, I try and stay in a bubble. It's easy that way because then you don't have to worry about anything else.