Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.

Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.

Everything that is possible demands to exist.

Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.

Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.

We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

There are corrupted Muslims who have become Christians, and corrupted Christians who have become Muslims. They called it freedom of religion.

Happiness absolutely depends on how you think.

I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.

You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.

...smile first, then speak.

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

It's very hard to accept that stoning still exists in the world today.

God is unknown; anything we said about God has no validity, because our knowledge about Him is zero, absolutely nothing!

There's a strong aspect of Buddhism which is geared towards ending all fertility.

People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.