The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for 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.

The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.

Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism.

Failures and fears are the part of the journey we call life. Don't let them stop you or derail you from your chosen path.

Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.

My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.

I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat.

Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Time is the truest form of wealth. And the beauty is, we are all born equally rich in time.

I think dreams hold a lot of meaning. I believe that if the universe is truthfully infinite then there are infinite possibilities for dreams to be happening somewhere out there.