In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

De omnibus dubitandum

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.

How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

Everything in my environment is offering me feedback, if I will only listen.

Horror, let's face it, is basically pretty dumb. You're writing about events that are preposterous, and the trick is to dress them up in language so compelling that the reader doesn't care.

When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float them on top of each bowl.

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return...

Every time you answer the phone, someone is crying, someone is raging, someone is begging you to solve their problems.

I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I'm still playing places for kids.

Your brand of comfort bears some similarity to your tactical offense.

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.