Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.

To hold power in this world is to know things that others do not want to know.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.

Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.

She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.

I've really learned to compartmentalize the different parts of my life. I work really hard.