In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

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.

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

Reality can be entered through the main door or it can be slipped into through a window, which is much more fun.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

A relationship is sent by God and accident.

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.

I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20.

I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.

I can’t explain to you what it’s like to be a heartthrob. I don’t think I am a heartthrob.