There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

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.

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.

I want to wake up ev­ery day I have left to the warmth of your lips on mine, the sound of your voice singing next to me, the feel of your fin­gers on my skin and your heart beat­ing mu­sic with mine.

If you want to keep your dignity intact, stay away from tequila.

Happiness is impossible without gratitude.

My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well been documented, are various other parts of my body.

The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.

Very rarely do I work on mechanics now. I tend to solve problems within the music itself.

Well, that’s not something you see every day. Go tell your father that Grandma needs the grenades.