The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.

Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.

It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

But the higher a man mounts, the greater may be his fall; all genius is a conquering of chaos, mystery.

An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

Endangering human life for profit should be a universal crime.

It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.

Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.

The government favors the most diplomatic language. That's why any letter to them should always start with, "Dear turkeys and foul maggots..."

I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.

What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?

The United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace.

The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

There'll be no smoking in the gas chamber.

A healthy mind always likes to adore others, elevate them. An unhealthy mind likes to pull everything down.