I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.

The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.