I detest war; it ruins conversation

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.

We are very fond of books. You can learn nearly everything from them that rabbits can't teach you.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Define your life, Define your world, Define your passions, Define your goals.

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.

Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.

We have to think outside the box, inside the Constitution, find ways to do things that will elevate our security, reduce the risk of the incidence of terrorist attack

In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.

You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done.

I feel I've got 10 books in me.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.