... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

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.

Scrub your brain of any thoughts that don’t serve you, and to fill your mind with fresh, clean thinking that instills confidence, commitment, and ultimate success.

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?

Every spell is a journey.

Things are different here. There will be rules and regulations that you are not used to. You will have to follow them. All of them.

As much as I love being an artist, I love being a mom even more.

Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.

God has promised to help us, and God always keeps His promises.

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

The market and its inescapable law are supreme.

What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.