What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we have as yet been unable to unravel.

Ohne Phosphor, Kein Gedanke. Without phosphorus there would be no thoughts.

For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth.

Death is the surest calculation that can be made.

The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore capable of being understood by human reason.

We are sorry to confess that biological hypotheses have not yet completely got out of the second phase, and that ghost of ‘vital force’ still haunts many wise heads.

You will have to defy the odds, for you to become extraordinary.

Beauty is not always in the face, but it is always in confidence.

In spite of her plainness that would have made wallflowers of other women, she radiated a great sense of self-importance.

Believe as though you are, and you will be.

I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.

My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.

To be an author, and an executive producer, and a host, and I don't even know, I mean I actually have a resume now, which is pretty cool.

Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?