The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
The sensitivity of men to small matters and their indifference to great ones indicates a strange inversion.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
I do not want people to be very agreeable as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood all born to encounter suffering and sorrow and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
Fables should be taught as fables myths as myths and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day rather than a sex symbol.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.