Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician.

A life of conflict and greediness causes a person to suffer from the rheumatism of sadness.

Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

I saw myself as Joan of Arc.

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

Satan is a tool of God's love in the sense that he forces us to see God's loving patience.

For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?