I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

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.

Today I am someone different. Today I have finally become who I really am.

One of the reasons to see improved productivity in Agile is because of the simplicity principle.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

I love all the soft candy. I'm not a big fan of the hard candy though.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

So, if you haven't picked up some tips during an apprenticeship like that, you shouldn't be directing. It doesn't mean you can do it, but it loads you up with information.

Integrity, number one. Even in business that's predicated on lies I refuse to become part of the lies that is all-consuming.

He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.

i suppose that's the secret, if you're ever wishing for things to back the way they were. You just have to look up.

To return to awareness is to notice this new world with baby-eyes, and to appreciate her strangeness.