We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

You may face many disappointments. But don’t lose hope.

Laughter is like a little miracle we all experience everyday.

The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.

The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.

Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

Always saying, "I tried" when you didn't really try at all.

Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.

Every major move in my life was done instinctively.

The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.