A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

If we repent, the Lord will forgive us.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.

The only truth I know is my own.

Would you believe I was a famous star? It's the truth.

Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay.

I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.

Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.