“If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.”

Logic takes care of itself, all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Logic takes care of itself, all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

The face is the soul of the body.

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

There are no subjects in the world. A subject is a limitation of the world.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

A nothing will serve just as well as something about which nothing could be said.

This is how philosophers should salute each other, Take your time.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

In art, it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

A confession has to be part of your new life.

I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Eternal life is given to those who live in the present.

Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it – One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.

The only way to confirm our worth, is to stop chasing people and start setting boundaries for who we allow in our lives.

Honestly, it’s hard to deal with the haters, but something that has helped me is not to focus on the haters and to focus on the nice people!

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective.

Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.