A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.

We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

De omnibus dubitandum

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.

How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

Censorship may promote the lies, but it does not alter the truth.

Beyond the limit of suffering is strength.

Stop trying to control how you feel, and instead take control of what you do.

Hard to guess what people see in each other, fortunately for the continued existence of the human race.

We need female advocates. I'd love to live in a world where there are as many women in parliament as men.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible

I'm a minimalist. I don't really need much to enjoy a good holiday - just my family and the bare essentials.

Last Christmas, I got the worst gift a guy ever gave me. He gave me a lottery ticket... what's the guy even thinking there. Here you go... nothing! Merry Christmas! It's nothing!

To gain the acceptance of your peers is an admirable task, but to truly accept yourself requires a much higher standard.