What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.

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 key to your success on planet earth is to find the field where your gift would be of the highest benefit

Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.

You can't develop the world but you can develop your world because the world will one day fall but your world will always walk with you where ever you go.

I shop more than most women.

She had a pretty face, but her head was up in space.

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization

I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.

I realize over the years my music has started becoming more like country and it's not necessarily something I'm trying to do.

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness. There's love and emotion trying to express itself, but at the time, it just ends up being awkward.