If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.

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.

To be a great success, you must do two things without fear: love and share.

If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.

I think you're going to see a number of Democrats that do want to see us grapple with spending.

People don't run out of dreams - people just run out of time.

But sure the eye of time beholds no name, So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.

A couple of things have helped. One is that I dont travel any, that takes a lot of time from peoples schedules, if they travel, so I dont travel.

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

Point shoes are torture devices.

I've been to three Olympics and I don't feel I've ever quite achieved my best at any of them.