Life without pain has no meaning.

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.

Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it.

Though people know the meaning of the word acceptance, people are ignorant about it. Thinking acceptance may hurt their self esteem.

Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on someone who makes you cry?

It's not easy to take three ships out of service.

Do you want me to answer that?

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.

The establishment clause was transformed from a shield for religion into a cover for the official sanctioning of religious tolerance.

I am qualified for this position, have a right to run for it, and am in the race.

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.