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.

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.

Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.

Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth.

If you think about it, finding true love is a lot like finding a particular grain of sand on the beach.

None of us are getting out of here alive".

I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.

He liked the way her hand felt in his, liked the simple intimacy of the gesture and the way it said - without the need for words - that they were together.

And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.

I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.

The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.