Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.

You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.