A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.

An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

Initially they waited with hope, but as each hour passed, hope slipped away like the wind, the wind that as a small boy Ethan had once tried to capture with his tiny fingers.

I promise to keep my hands to myself. I'm too exhausted to make a move on you.

But men are men the best sometimes forget.

The biggest klutz would be myself, so if I could offer help to myself I would. I’m the most off my game most often.

The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.

To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading.

Most of us are only willing to call 5% of our present information into question any one point.

I love street, adore street. Life is about mixing things and to be divine in the streets. Voila!

When there are monsters there are miracles.

I have never seen happier people than those who have repented.