“A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.”

“The guy has been there. What he tells us is not just what he believes deep down, but what he knows, because he has been through it.”

“Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.”

“You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?”

“No man knows what he can do until he tries.”

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”

“Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”

“Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process…”

“If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.”

“And he [Hannibal] probably believed, up to the very end, that everything might still come out right if he only had a few you-know-whats.”