With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

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.

Even death has a heart.

Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. . . do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd.

Nevertheless, he had, on a certain star-lit evening, said wonderingly and quite reverently: "Deh moon looks like hell, don't it?

Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.

If you are a parent it helps if you are a grown-up.

I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.

I think it's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change.

Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?

Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.