You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

My heart is too valuable to allow hatred and jealousy to rent a spot.

Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

I still have auditions for independent films. I've been still working.

Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.

If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you.

I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.

In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.

I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.

When I'm away from basketball, I'm the biggest kid. I do a good job of keeping myself sane. But on the other hand, I'm more of a solitary guy, glad to be left alone.

The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.