“We are rarely proud when we are alone.”

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

The more a man knows, the less he talks.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor

I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.

You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.