When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
Resist much. Obey little.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
The only real laughter comes from despair.
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.
Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
