"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."

"There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer."

"I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one."

"In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the citizens to give to the other."

"[Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst."

"Regimen is superior to medicine."

"Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art."

"I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness..."

"Man is more ape than many of the apes."

"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings."

"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace."

"To believe blindly is to degenerate the human soul. Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly."