There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

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.

... as a reminder that a white man could still kill him for nothing.

With my love I homeI paid for lustDigresses like some, Only, if she understood, Her curse was my unfulfilled thirst.

You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, and trusting.

Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.

Hopefully, I can put the pictures they take of me up on my Facebook.

My mom's Jewish and my dad's Irish Catholic alcoholic, so I whine on the inside.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.

Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life.

There's this other girl called Lykke Li from Sweden - I really want to collaborate with her, that'd be great. Obviously Kanye West as well, and Drake would be pretty amazing.