A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

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.

Music is breath of life.

Happiness doesn't depend on reality but it depends on perception.

I don't know what God intends, or what qualifies Him to forgive me, ' Sobran said

Nature never makes any blunders when she makes a fool she means it.

The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion and does not seek to make converts to it.

Is an animal less or more intelligent because it lives without clothes, central heating, and well, atom bombs ?

Music is not sound. Music is using sound to organize emotions in time.

Fredrick Buechner kind of loosened me up, hes got a little irreverency to him and I have a little too much reverancy.

The magic word for me is pumpernickel. I love pumpernickel. I must have some Russian blood in me because I could just eat pumpernickel and raw onions.

Apparently, they believe they're gods.