A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

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.

Within my reflection I see tears, for what I see is the truth, are my greatest fears.

The difference being that people fear us. When people fear you, you have power.

May the Lord grant you a tender kind heart.

I live in my mind, such that whatever destroys me shall be a creature of my own invention.

We lost the crickets.

Climate change is and will be a significant threat to our national security and in a larger sense to life on earth as we know it to be.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things

You'll feel a tingling in your chest," says a surgeon. "It's nothing to worry about.

Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.