“People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.”

If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

We chase dreams and embrace shadows.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.

The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.

When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.

Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.

Successful people spend 10% of their time focused on the problems and 90% of the rest, focused on the solution.

I feel like my job as CEO is always to be pushing people ahead.

Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.

When you have two people, separate beings, trying to share one life together. That’s always going to have difficulties.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.