There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

May each one of us glorify the Lord with the soul of Mary and rejoice in God with the spirit of Mary

Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.' Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you

What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.

I'm not a gangster, I don't have no desire to be hard.

Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.

What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead?

I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings... Boy With Pail... Kitten On Fire.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.