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

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.

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.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Come on, make it easy, say I never mattered

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny

You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations.

I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.

The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.

I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.

Without love you can only resist, without feeling you can't exist.

Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of responding to whatever curves life throws at them.

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.