It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.

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.

Every New Year brings new expectations, new enthusiasms and new experiences.

You can change your life to become YOUR life

The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive.

If I get a chance to act, I will act. And then I'm usually the happiest person around.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

Don't cut off your nose yourself.

To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others.

Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.

The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.