Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

To be adult is to be alone.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Demon or not, it didn't matter, suffering was everywhere he looked.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.

Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy- I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm deluded and delusional. I'm lost without you. I need you.

Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.

Ability is the result of mental and physical toughness, resourcefulness, and powerful concentration.

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence

Whenever you want to produce something, do not depend upon the outside source: go deep and seek the Infinite Source.

The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.

When we are in groups, when we are surrounded by people who believe what we believe, trust emerges and our very survival and progress goes up.