Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

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.

You are not a victim of your circumstance.Stay determine to endure hard times. No situation is permanent.

And I do wish she wouldn't sing about poisoning just after we have eaten.

As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.

If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips.

As long as countries wave chequebooks over our heads, we can never be equal.

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

We will never meet God in revival until we have first met Him in brokenness.

Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine

I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.