In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

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.

None of us just pop into the world fully formed, so it's the little facts that make us.

Beware of leaders who prefer controlling 100 % of nothing over sharing a fortune.

I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.

If someone loves you, they can fall out of love with you but they're probably going to keep fearing you. That's where we are with [Donald] Trump.

Twenty-four hours is never enough for a busy person and way too much for somebody with nothing to do.

We do not want to just define issues; we want to help to create solutions

To know music is to transfer it to life.

But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.

All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.

If free will exists, why do the tallest candidates with the best hair usually win elections ?