If you want to know your true opinion of someone watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

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.

The reason why most of your goals are probably not achieved is because you do not break down your goals into smaller units of work.

Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one ever bothered to ask!

God doesn't make orange juice God makes oranges.

My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

I won't try to be anybody else. I just try to be myself.

He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it.

I voted for you during your last election.

When I retire I'm gonna bet on Wolves drawing every game. I'll be a multi-millionaire!

I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.