The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.

I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.

A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

My "me" is God nor do I recognize any other "me" except my God himself.

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent

I enjoy hard work, I love setting goals and achieving them.

Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.

Every human being is a repeated question asked to the spirit of the Universe.

I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.

I thought Alchemists avoided alcohol the same way they do primary colors.

I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it.