I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

...fairy tales, just a fancy word for lies...

No matter how smart YOU THINK you are or how smart others THINK that you are, you're never going to be somewhere OR someone you're not. _nickc

And you are more than the mistakes of your youth. You are more than the label you’ve been assigned by people who might love you, but don’t really know who you are anymore.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Everybody's saying I should run for president.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

I have had, like most women, a lifelong preoccupation with my weight. My first published short story was a love story between an elderly man and a very young morbidity obese woman.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.

When I'm in the street, the only people I notice are usually at least 70 years old, because they look really stylish.