To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.

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.

The right people make you realize fame and fortune is cool, but small moments of pure freedom is better.

The departed souls shall never return.

God doesn't have any grandchildren.

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

When you can take something that is a reject at the thrift store sitting on the bottom of a pile of junk and make it work, make it look interesting, that's real style to me.

Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

I love all things Queen - their songs are epic storytelling.

I'm moving on. I'm human. Everybody makes mistakes.

Love is reducing the universe to one being.