I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.

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.

Ocean is ocean.

I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.

If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

Live your life in your own unique way and be true to yourself

Approach the universe with Tao, And evil will have no power. Not that evil is not powerful, But its power will not be used to harm others.

George Clooney is exceptional.

We owe thankfulness to God, not sour faces.