“The thing I fear most is fear.”

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.

Good guys are most likely to finish last, but also most likely to finish first.

I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don’t think there’s anybody out there that’s doing a bigger or a better show than us.

Most of society’s decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.

Most people believe that great leaders are distinguished by their ability to give compelling answers.

This is what I find most magnetic about successful givers: they get to the top without cutting others down, finding ways of expanding the pie that benefit themselves and the people around them.

Because we are most often distracted from that. Massively distracted.

Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.