If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

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.

Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.

No one went looking for adventure

My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible.

The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.

There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.

I am sick of living out of a suitcase.

Your self is yours to integrate. To integrate your self you need to be, in the midst of your experience, a little bit like your own being.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

My approach has been that a player with determination and a willingness to work harder than anyone else can accomplish anything. It's a simple formula. I've found it works.

And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.