Scoundrels are always sociable.

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.

Dude--she's your wife." He pointed to the locker where the Bible lay concealed. "God first, family second, country third.

A shout for help isn’t always a cry of pain

The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king.

Without the hard we stay too soft, and heaven is reduced to myths like life. Theology aside, it’s plain to see that God forbids we get too comfortable.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

Being a control freak makes us tense, stressed out, and unpleasant to be with.

We can not lead an organization, we can run an organization. We can only lead people.