“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”

“Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.”

“It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.”

“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”

“What's Optimism?' asked Cacambo. 'I'm afraid to say,' said Candide, 'that it's a mania for insisting that all is well when things are going badly.”

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”

“To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. ”