I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

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.

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

I can't know your feelings", he said, "if you don't know them yourself.

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

It was a typically British birth... I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward... I came out in sympathy.

Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation They just weigh him down

If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far.

Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom.

Fly with me, touch the face of the true God. And then cry with joy at the depth of my love.

One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors.

It will be all right if it turns out all right.