As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

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.

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.

I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.

I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.

For many wealthy people, giving a tenth is a way of robbing God. Their tithe becomes a tip.

They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic.

The pain was her whole world now. Pain and fear.

I think the next United manager is already at the club. It could be either Ryan Giggs or Ole Gunnar Solksjaer, who isn't at the club.

I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.