It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.

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.

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.

Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.

Storm Sister--a friend who sticks close when storms hit her friend's life.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.

We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.

You can wear your hair long or wear a beard because you want to show that you are interested in thought, in psychological endeavors rather than appearance.

Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?

If I could have one superpower, I'd want to have the power of mind over matter. I'd want to be able to move things and people with my mind.

I also have experience working with American producer Roger Corman who knows a lot of secrets in making movies look bigger than their budget.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.