The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

De omnibus dubitandum

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.

How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.

Am I afraid of ghosts? My life experience has taught me to be much more afraid of what a human is capable of in broad daylight than what a ghost is capable of at night.

You will choose your path, or perhaps it will choose you.

This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

I work a lot and I like to get out and work but the work I do to make the other work work I'm not very good at.

If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side.

Why do people deserve a penny when they update their Facebook status? Because they'll spend some of it on you.

Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.

She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.

There is a bit of arrogance with 'Hollywood' types that doesn't sit well with game developers.