If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.

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 don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

Time creates Let time work at your projects.

It makes a difference when you've got more than two months versus two weeks to train for a particular opponent.

I believe we have to take this step by step to try to reign in Iranian aggression, their support for terrorism and the other bad behavior that can come back and haunt us.

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Silence is a still noise.

The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

John McCain famously has been incredibly loyal to Sarah Palin ever since he picked her as his running mate.

The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.