The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

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.

Sacred soul searches to know the truth.

I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things.

Richard Papen: As it happened, I knew Gartrell. He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, gutteral verbs, and the world "postmodernist.

Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding to someone in the imaginary world.

You own what you own not by money or force, but by your love for it and your inner connection to it.

Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

When I was a kid, I dreamed of using a bat with my own name on it.

In my thought there is only one universal religion, whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being.

If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.

Too many start up business fail simply because their owners continue to think and act like employees.