love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.

To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion.

Let us choose for ourselves our path in life, and let us try to strew that path with flowers.

Let us decide on the route that we wish to take to pass our life, and attempt to sow that route with flowers.

Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Act. Procrastination costs money.

Be careful, Hally.""Of what? The truth? I seem to be the only one around here who is prepared to face it.

I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.

Once you get to that point when you can just be yourself and relax, I just think that you're so much happier in general.

The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions.

Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last.

Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously.

we reach with our hands and brush away the clouds and pierce the sky to reach the moon and Mars but we still can't reach the truth

I believe that people of my income group should pay more, and I explained why, but that won't necessarily lift overall wage levels.