Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking.

I'm a guy's guy. I don't comb my hair unless I have to, and I don't use lotions or fancy shampoos.

I like Twitter a lot. It is a great way to get the fans knowing another side of you.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper.

Success in the present is only achieved when you put your focus where you want your future.

Change your 'Nafs', change the world.

I would not give up a lot of what I know about my heritage. I would not give up knowing where I came from, the good parts and the bad parts.