Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

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.

Creativity can impact some sort of "CHANGE" in the WORLD. But we must first embrace pure "DIFFERENCES" and work together for a common cause.

The best relationship is when you can completely act yourself and they can still love you for who you are.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found he was planting trees in his garden.

My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities

I’ve always hated being looked at.

One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.

O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.