Unrest is the mark of existence.

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.

Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.

Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...

There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people.

To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.

Your self-esteem has never been hurt before, right? Don't be so full of yourself then.

In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it's supposed to sound like you - the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.

The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death means.

I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.