Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.

Everything that is possible demands to exist.

Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.

Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.

We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down.

Both life and work were a great more reewarding when you didn't take them quite so seriously

Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.

It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.

Appearances are deceptive.

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

You think beautiful girls are going to stay in style forever? I should say not! Any minute now they're going to be out! Finished! Then it'll be my turn!

The game is not set. There are so many layers that it is being perceived on. As your own consciousness becomes more refined, the game changes.

I hate that feeling of being so full that you feel like you're gonna burst, so I try not to do that.

I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.