We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.

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.

Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected - he got up, of course, but it never felt natural.

Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.

All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.

He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.

He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.