Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

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.

People act what they truly believe.

When i thought i was learning to live I was learning to die

Struggle only when if its absolute necessity, if you will struggle on every step you can never reach up to the goal.

Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.

When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.

What I am after, above all, is expression.

All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.

The government in Russia does not tell me what to do with my assets.

I am a passionate believer that Britain has benefited the whole world and that our heritage, our culture, our values and more importantly our people who created those things, are worth fighting for.

I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.