Money is human happiness in the abstract.

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.

To find beauty, rise above conformity and find opportunities.

They wanted her. They all loved her. And they wanted to keep her.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

If I can make the movies I want, people are going to watch it how they're going to watch it.

When I want your opinion, I'll remove the duct tape.--T-SHIRT

In life it is training rather than birth which counts.

Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.

To be alive at all is to have scars.

Small birds throw seeds out of the feeder; large birds pick them up off the ground, but the squirrels try to muscle in.

The Avatar appears to be human and we are misled into thinking of him in these terms but the Avatar himself warns us against this error.