René Descartes

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

I think; therefore I am.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

We’re comic. We’re all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

You are perfect. An exquisitely fine work of art, labor of love, suspended in silence. Bejeweled, trembling, kissed by a breeze, mesmerized by your beauty. You await in silence, beckoning me to a silken-wrapped slumber.

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Why is that others have so much faith in me, while I have so little? Why can’t I have the same belief in me that they have? Why can’t I see in myself, what they do? What is it that makes me, hold myself back? How many more hurdles do I need to overcome? There are so many questions that I have to find the answers to. And I will only find them by focusing and being completely honest with myself.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there’s nothing but fear and insecurity.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.