Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.

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.

She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

Many of us spend more time on the C's of life than on the A's of life. Don't allow trivial things to crowd out the important ones.

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

I can count the number of dates I've had on one hand. I wish that guys would approach me, but they don't.

I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old Your days are gone; it is part of life.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

Where a chunk of business is simple, the chances are that it is.

The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.