Voltaire

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home.

It always seems impossible until it is done.

Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.

The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

I’m taking more time to listen to myself. It’s allowed me to be an aggressive bad ass, calling it as I see it

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

You know you’re a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.

The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Children are all foreigners.

I believe in the limitlessness of humans. We’re capable of incredible things. At times that realization is frightening.

Events tend to recur in cycles.