I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist.

There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again.

For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.

The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand!

Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

Forgiveness is alchemy of the soul in which the feeling of possibility returns to the human spirit.

in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.

The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that are of major significance.

I get sent Bibles. I have a collection of about 20 in my room. People think I need to be guided.

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.

When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research.

Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt.