Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

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.

The actual handbag is neither here nor there-- it's what you keep in it that's the most important thing.

If you cannot teach others what you have learned, then you have learned nothing.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.

Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately

You're measured by championships no matter what.

If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.

Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.

If you make mistakes that is alright because we all make mistakes and we learn from those mistakes. You gain confidence from learning, failing and rising again.