Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

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.

The world is one Matrix, you don't realise it but it's the truth. It's well shown in the films like Matrix 1, 2, 3 and Inception!

May night continue to fall upon the orchestra

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.

Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots.

Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.

Let's say that what's out there is a narrative. Often enough, the picture plays with the question of what actually is happening. Almost the way puns function.

It takes leadership to improve safety.

Make your marketing so useful people would pay you for it.