A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Prayer is the breath of our spirit-man

... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.

There are not many things you can do to make the car go faster at some racetracks. What you got from the shop is just how you're going to race. It's really about strategy.

If I had won...all those other championships, my life might be totally different, but I didn't win. It's not going to affect my life.

I think that to explore the uncomfortable and the politically incorrect is the job of the artist.

I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.

Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love - I don't think there's any influence on my life that compares with love.

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

I'd like to meet you In a timeless placeless place Somewhere out of context And beyond all consequences.

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.