It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.

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.

Why weep when it takes less energy to laugh? Why frown when it takes less energy to smile? Why despair when it takes less energy to hope? Why fear when it takes less energy to love?

I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.

Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream.

Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.

Boxing is always serious. Nothing comical or funny about boxing.

Look at what Jimmy Carter did. Look at the risks he took for a country that wasn't his. Israel has benefited unbelievably from that. To fail to give him credit seems unfair.

Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.