Wonder is the first of all the passions.

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?

He who doesn’t regard agriculture will truly value it when food becomes scarce!

I went to a bookstore the other day. I asked a woman behind the counter where the self-help books were. She said, ‘If I told you, that would defeat the whole purpose.’

To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life.

Whatever success I've achieved has come from pretty much doing the opposite of what I've been told or expected to do.

As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.

The gods my protectors. [Lat., Di me tuentur.]

Greyface and his followers took the game of playing at life more seriously than they took life itself and were known even to destroy other living beings whose ways of life differed from their own.

Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free/to be more like the man you were made to be

For four years, we didn't do any 'Halloweens,' ... But I believed in it. It's not a genius creation or anything. But whenever Halloween season comes around audiences want something like this.

If God is real, why does he align perfectly with our views? We should expect God to challenge us on what we think is right somewhere