Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.

Times, they are a-changing. Change accordingly, the sooner the better.

Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.

Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.

Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?

There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little.

There's a lot of negative things trying to pull people down, and I think people respond when you tell them that hey, there are good things up ahead.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.

The way you look at the world determines how creative you can be.

The nicer the point, the more -- the better I feel, the more excited I get. But I never play that my opponent looks stupid. I think that is wrong. I have too much respect for every opponent I play.