Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

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 you to channel Jessica Rabbit and give him a show.

In the end, perfection is just a concept - an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature.

They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money.

I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.

Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness.

The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?

Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense