“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor

I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

For me, I’m in the driver’s seat; I’m No. 1 in the world. I’ve won the last couple of meetings, and I’ve won the big tournaments lately. Whoever comes, I’ll try to beat him. But it’s almost up to me to decide who’s my rival, isn’t it?

I decided I can’t pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

It was a very long and hard decision. My dad kept telling me, ‘You can always go to college, but you can’t always go pro.’ That made sense to me.

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

When God decides its time, I guess he’ll come for us.

There’s a rhythm to the legislative session and there are rhythms to legislative sessions. So I think that’s very important to take into consideration when you are deciding what to do when.

Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.

I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading.