Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

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.

Mind is everything, there is nothing else as far as your subjective reality is concerned. Everything else outside this subjective reality is irrelevant to biological life.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

Jump high brother!! So high that if you fall, then people should remark on not how far you fell but how high you jumped

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.

God loves His people despite their sins and faults.

If you direct your whole thought to work itself none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot.

People stereotype pop stars, but Christina [Aguilera] proves them wrong with her unique style and talent.

Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.