It's a Mad Mad World

I testify to you that our promised blessings are beyond measure. Though the storm clouds may gather, though the rains may pour down upon us, our knowledge of the gospel and our love of our Heavenly Father and of our Savior will comfort and sustain us and bring joy to our hearts as we walk uprightly and keep the commandments. There will be nothing in this world that can defeat us.
My beloved brothers and sisters, fear not. Be of good cheer. The future is as bright as your faith.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

Character is higher than intellect...A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Don't waster yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of good.

God enters by a private door into every individaul.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Insanity in individuals is something rare- but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do...?

*You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star*

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.