Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.

An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread

I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Oreos come in packages. Otherwise known as a gift. Cherish it.

A mark of maturity seems to be the range and extent of one's feeling of self-involvement in abstract ideals.

I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.

I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast.

Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it became plain in later days that he must have dropped him.

We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.

I try to stay two drinks ahead of reality and three behind a drunk

The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.