It is the passions that do and undo everything.

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.

If you never been rabid, you ain't never lived.

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. And I have asked to be where no storms come.

I'm convinced being a tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world.

Some people go shopping - I cut myself.

I am a tiny seashell that has secretly drifted ashore and carries the sound of the ocean surging through its body.

I do pranayama breathing now as a meditation, and that's very helpful. Meditating changed my life.

The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand.

In my profession you have to be very strong within yourself in order to block out the rejection and block out the opinions and the commentary that happens.

Love is not consolation, it is light.

If we pursue a spiritual path in depth, then it changes who and what we are. There is no turning back. We can only move forward.