If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?

Men have had the vanity to pretend that the whole creation was made for them, while in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.

Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.

There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.

What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?

The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable.

Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.

The supernatural does not exist.

Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!

Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

People in business are uniquely unqualified to see their own companies and product objectively. Too much product knowledge causes them to instinctively answer questions no one is asking.

I feel like my evolution has come to a place where now I'm attached to Crazy Rich Asians.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington.

We hould totally make out right now

Diplomacy was what I wanted to do. From really quite an early age and I think I had a false impression that diplomacy equals travel.

For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.

She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him.

I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that ends the permanent underclass, that lifts up the poor and ends their isolation, their exile, and they are not forgotten anymore.