Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.

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 want to have a romance so grand, it would have made Shakespeare fumble for words.

Facts are much more malleable than prejudices.

Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.

My aim is to make you look the best you can and if that means a little bit of internal pulling and hoisting up, then so be it.

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.

I think that the consumer is generally unaware of certain material facts, particularly the tax risk and compensation issues.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

I am at the Olympics, I forgot to tie my suit, how is this gonna happen?

My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that? Eight children and that's all I remember.