What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.

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.

There is a commanded blessing on anyone that values, esteems and stands for justice in society.

The real two-party system in America is the Meanies and the Weenies. The Meanies want to take away your benefits, and the Weenies want to compromise with them.

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

Mike Tyson always had a big heart, but one of his problems is that he's short. And he's got kind of a personal attitude. But that don't make him a great fighter.

Most of my problems come from rejecting parts of myself.

I still try to do what I've always said I would do, which is say yes to the things that make my heart beat faster, particularly if there's something scary about it.

I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.

My biggest achievement is that I can make a lot of people smile just by my presence, even if it's a Lux ad.

When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.