Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

I didn’t know when I grew up, but it happened like this: I was so very young, and then suddenly, I was old.

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.

Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal.

A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.

Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder.

Happiness is always a choice. You can't wait for circumstances to get better. You have to create your own good fortune. So look for ways to be happy every day.

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.

Think your own thoughts.

We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.

Belief was never mentioned at home, but right actions were taught by daily example.