"Let each of us examine his thoughts..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“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.”

“To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.”

“All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.”

“For one thing, I don’t pun excessively in real life.”

“It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.”

“Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?'”

“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”

“There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.”

“Doubt is thought's despair; despair is personality's doubt. . . . Doubt and despair . . . belong to completely different spheres; different sides of the soul are set in motion. . . . Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.”