“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.”

Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it.

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.

Your friends are all the dullest dogs.

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

In heaven an angel is no one in particular.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.

Without a Stable Physical Structure, the Overflow of Genius Will Be Damaging.

The leader of the genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

Genius lives only one story above the madness.

Progress and civilization are the results of the efforts of genius, not the gossip of the majority.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.