It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable

We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

De omnibus dubitandum

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.

How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble.

In the Miss America system talent is worth 50 percent of a contestant's points so my mom encouraged me to give it a try. And once I decided to do it, like anything else, I gave it 110 percent.

Moon, plum blossoms, this, that, and the day goes

Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.

The only people who make love all the time are liars.

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.

You don't race cars, you race the rule book

fear no man but only God