We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

You can only govern men by serving them.

The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all.

Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice demands.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright.

If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.

Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible in the form of defenseless crackers?

Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.

The worst that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.

Rock and roll is about having a good time, so no matter where you are right now blast some music and forget about lifes problems.

None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.

I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my head.

It takes a certain brashness to attack the accepted economic legendsbut noneat all toperpetuatethem. So theyare perpetuated.

For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.