Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand!

There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again.

For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.

The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.

Practice is the golden bullet for hitting the target of excellence.

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.

You just click and you get 18,000 screen shots on how to apply lipstick, for example, but there will be the same selection that has taken place in paper in digital, too.

Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty.

I began to wonder why we cuddle some animals and put a fork in others.

Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.

I think there must have been some other girl printed somewhere in his heart, for he was a man of love and his wife was not a woman to show her feelings.

Everybody know, I don't do no promoting. I don't ever have to promote nothing, that's the beauty of Lil Wayne.

Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions.