To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

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.

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

We desire to keep the dying and the newly dead close before our eyes so as to give them full need of pity. Our Lord was brought down to be pitied, on the Cross He was too far away.

I protect myself by refusing to know myself.

You could not stop the winds and you could not stop Time. It went on and on, -and on.

I always had a decent sense of outrage.

He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.

I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.

It's very important for Taiwan to maintain its international contact.

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.