Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

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.

I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing, ' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.

Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.

My idea of Christmas is love.

Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What's not to love!

So here I am - a 75-year-old man sitting on a bar stool in a blues club, trying to figure out exactly how I got here. Any way you look at it, it's a helluva story.

Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.

Question all as to their ways and learn the secrets that they hold

There are few jobs in the world that are more fun than being the head of Urban Development for a great and thriving city.

My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction... The music is what saved me. That's the only thing I can trust.

Motivations are too tangled and complex.