You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

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.

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

Life is a game. To be a world changer choose to be the player and not the ball

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation.

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

I loved playing Darla.

Prayer is as mighty as God, because He has committed Himself to answer it.

Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.