After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

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.

Let the spirits guide you, but never let them take you.

Don’t a man has serf esteem, it’s only woman who is sign of dignity, don’t man have their own?

I actually have a pig collection in my cabin: all types of old wood hand-carved pigs that my mom started for me as a housewarming gift.

Start with a picture of your goal as already achieved in the future, and work back to the present. Imagine the steps that you would have taken to get from where you are now to where you want to be.

I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life.

Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

Just putting a computer in front of a student doesn't make education better.

I buy DVDs. I don't really buy CDs unless they're for other people.

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest…I did a lot of walking in Montgomery.