Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.

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.

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

Whoever falls from God's right hand is caught into His left.

Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.

The foundation of beauty is the body.

Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.

Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

Don’t worry," I said. "These men are good. They’re going to heal the world.

Truth is the root of all the charities.