The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

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.

When you believe, the whole world with all of her positive-synchronized power dares to help you.

Words are meaningless when there are no actions backing them up. Prove to me that you feel that way. Don't just tell me, show me.

Trust is a product of test over time.

Nobody wants to watch perfect people.

I want to live fast and die young.

I think that it’s not as crazily different, my job, from anyone else’s, as people let themselves believe. I think people get wrapped up in their own idea of what it is, but it’s really not that.

Let me tell you, Barack Obama is the most down dude in the world, but he's so smart so articulate, such an amazing speaker such a passionate man. He's humble.

It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.

Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahimsâ, non-injury.

Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall.