If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

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.

You know how they say the path to hell is paved with good intentions? Well, maybe the path to heaven is paved with bad ones.

Plants and Books are silent Friends to Mankind.The former grows silently to let you live.The later grows you silently to 'live

You were born an original. Don't die a copy.

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.

I never rebelled against my parents - I worked hard, I was responsible, and I didn't go to high-school parties.

The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

The movies have made the comic books much more valuable and more respected.

I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?"

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.