"The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter."

"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright"

"No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth"

"We run carelessly over the precipice after having put something in front of us to prevent us seeing it."

"When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do."

"If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exsists."

"Please forgive the long letter; I didn’t have time to write a short one."

"A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of."

"We know the truth, not only be the reason, but also be the heart."

"We make an idol of truth itself, for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and an idol that we must not love or worship."

"Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions."

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed."

"Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless."

"If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding."

"All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room."

"Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts."

"To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man."

"Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen."

"Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him."

"They do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry."

"Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is."

"Jesus is a God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair."

"We desire truth and find within ourselves only uncertainty."

"It is better to know something about everything then everything about something"

"Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God."

"Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards."

"At the far end of this infinite distance a coin is being spun which will come down heads or tails. How will you wager? Reason cannot make you choose either, reason cannot prove either wrong."

"God wishes to move the will rather than the mind. Perfect clarity would help the mind and harm the will."

"Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain."

"Play it fuckin' loud!"

"I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me."

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do."

"Don't criticize what you can't understand."

"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours"

"The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my last"

"All I can be is me- whoever that is."

"And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking."

"Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean."

"Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be."

"He not busy being born is busy dying."

"I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do."

"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent."

"Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools."

"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet."

"When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose."

"May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung."

"No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky."

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."

"If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them."