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

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.

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

You are here for a reason.

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

Current education policy is not in the interests of women. An injustice is being perpetrated.

Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.

The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.

I am no longer in love, but I still have my jealousy.

People who love each other can no more keep from communicating than from breathing. —Elana

I have realized sometimes I do better working under a crazy schedule. It gives me less time to overthink things and forces me to be present.

My fans are like no other. Completely original people.