Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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.

You can handle any problem by grace.

O Lord gives me a humble heart.

Large-scale change is grounded in small steps toward a big idea

When we embrace our Intuition, be embrace a new way of living...The intuitive process is an adventure. There are new discoveries around every corner, and we always have the power to change our lives.

Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.

A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique.

This is NOT a pretty good business. You cannot be pretty good and be a national headliner. That becomes the allure.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.