Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into

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.

You only live once so, lets make a difference people will remember.

Mum, mum, He that keeps nor crust nor crumb, Weary of all, shall want some.

If you know one thing very well and the rest only superficially, that one thing will always appear to be more 'unique.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow.

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something.

Well, certainly at the Golden Globes, during every commercial break everyone gets up and schmoozes with each other.

Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem!

Dictators always look good until the last minutes.