The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

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.

Books are great meals for the mind!

I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone... just like everybody else.

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?

People judge you because of your weight and your food issues. It's very visual.

If I memorize enough stuff, I can get a good grade.

We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front.

Sahaja Yoga is nothing but love, love, love. How much you love others is the main point.

I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.