The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

Almost all life depends on probabilities.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

All is but illusion and disaster.