Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.

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.

Just leave me alone, I want to be alone, ” she said when Jack tried to open the car door. She hit the lock, and wound the window up. Since the roof was down, it was a fairly pointless exercise.

One who has conquered every aspect of his pain except the deepest.

Love is as irrational as hate and just as unpredictable.

A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.

Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations.

The secrets in his brain were like some mesmerizing drug to me.

The only thing you should never hold on to is a grudge.

I'm married to football, baseball is my girlfriend.

The most important thing... was to change their spirit; and since at that time I felt that literature was the best means to this end, I decided to promote literary movement.

A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.