The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

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.

Failure is an opportunity to reflect and realize.

Monsters don't born they made, but still monsters can love.

To separate yourself from your weakness and look at it objectively is a very powerful thing.

We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.

I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

I'm certainly very conservative when it comes to education. We're getting rid of Common Core. We're going to have education at a local level.

Apply true focus to what you do best.

Tom Ford just started at Gucci and was getting great notoriety - like Madonna wearing that head-to-toe velvet suit at the MTV awards. I remember it like it was yesterday.

One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.