There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

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.

Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

It is true that my parents were worried because I began to speak fairly late, so that they even consulted a doctor. I can't say how old I was - but surely not less than three.

I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.

To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

Compassion leads to freedom of discovering your voice, your gifts, and your purpose.

Every day we’re given chances to embrace the new.

It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.