“It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.”

Chance favors the prepared mind.

There is a time in every man’s life when he looks to his God, when he looks at his life, when he wonders how he will be remembered.

When I approach a child he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become.

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

Life comes only from life.

Question your priorities often, make sure God always comes first.

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator.

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness.

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries.

The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.

The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.

Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering.

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

Your job is to do your job with all your heart to the best of your ability. Life will go it’s own merry way at it’s own pace. But if you do then you – and life – will be the richer for you being here.

Though love might be gone, hope shall not be lost.

If we never take a risk, we’ll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.