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

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

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?

Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.

A red nose is the clown's mask and my moustache is mine.

Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that which is likely to endure.

If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.

If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business.

Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.

This is what we’ve been waiting for, this is the cyberchryst moment. This is when the activists that have been pushing against the FED are going to win.

It really has lifted my spirits. It's intensified my faith, given me more hope. That's what music does for me.

A vision and strategy aren't enough. The long-term key to success is execution. Each day. Every day.

A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.

The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought in memoirs.