I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

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.

Sometimes the ultimate act of self-compassion is turning off your phone and looking someone in the eye.

It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on...

Be impatient enough to start going after your dreams now but patient enough to watch them manifest.

There are times when the evil seems so impenetrable, the wickedness so victorious, you don't even know how to hope. But then the good news bursts in, as impossible to deny as it is to believe.

It hurts so bad that I cannot save him, protect him, keep him out of harm's way, shield him from pain. What good are fathers if not for these things?

I never liked being a salesman. . . . Ever since I got my first two orders: Get out! and Stay out!

I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.

It's a good idea to pay attention to the world and try to understand how it works rather than how you would like it to work.

I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.

Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic.