For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.

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.

What's more important than recycling? Producing something to recycle.

The battle of Panipat was fought for more than what is usually imagined. It was fought by a people in the far south of India, on behalf of the Mughal Emperor, for the defence of India.

The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.

You don't wanna hear the truth, so I'ma lie to you...make it sound fly to you.

Actually, I dont hate cats, Im just kind of afraid of them.

Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied.

I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!

Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.