To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

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.

God knew that children grow and mature best in a stable, loving family, and this was one reason He gave marriage to us.

It's never much fun at school - it's just dates. Then as you get older, for some reason, you get more interested.

Forgiveness is simply a decision to cancel a debt.

Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.

I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.

You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness.

Be happy with who you are, where you are, for this is the way.

Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

Records and achievements are made to be broken.