“We are all special cases.”

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.

The need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within.

Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot.

Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design

The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?

I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something.” “I don’t have to blow up everything I see. I just like to.

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.

I am relatively familiar with getting a good old rumping from the critics. In some cases, the critics just didn’t like the film – fair cop. Others, I think, didn’t understand it.