Pascal

“There are only two things that can destroy a healthy man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.”
― Peter Altenberg

“In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.”
― Tom Robbins

“The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be a cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.”
― Tom Robbins