The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about 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.

My best photo will be the last one, that I want to be taken.

A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.

Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.

In debating the respective merits of dogs and cats, not having to walk a cat when it's 20 below zero deserves consideration.

Politics in America has become a Jewish profession, just like arts and the law.

Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.

I don't think that God raised up Internet bloggers to call out wolves - who have an opinion and a website.

A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.

Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.

Each Jew must either give or take tzedakah [charity] for Passover.