No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.

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.

Their boots were black and shiny and your treasures gleamed like stars, Bones from deep down in the fertile crescent.

We can never prove that we are free or integrate our freedom in any way into our objective conception of the causal order of nature.

I hate The Police so much I'd probably assassinate Sting, My System of a Down Rages Against the Machine. Tie you up in a Slipknot and hold Alice In Chains inside her dreams.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.

I always have a camera now that I've got a kid, but I don't think I've got one picture of anyone other than my daughter.

The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

I hope to have some more cracks at some wonderful roles before I go to the Great Beyond.