Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.

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.

Your inner essence can innovate and inspire. Harness that dynamism and embrace the positive change you can create.

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.

If you're gonna fret, fret over something you can change. Then stop fretting and do something about it.

I’ve written a lot and brainstorm ideas, and I plan on pursuing them very soon.

I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.

A lot of liberals don't believe in American exceptionalism, but it doesn't mean they don't love America.

Age is really just a number to me and means every year I get to experience so much more.