Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

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.

Pray not only for your disciples but for all who believes in you

When he told me he no longer loved me, I fell to my knees.

I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version of folk, if you like.

Let us be in a position so we are able to not only feed ourselves through home production and storage, but others as well.

I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream.

Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run

I have many, many voices. I talk to my dogs like in the strangest voices you can imagine.

Wake up and live. It's a fast world out there.