Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Life is consciousness.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.