All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

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.

It wasn't who a person believed himself to be or what he pretended he would do in a given situation. It was what he did when he got there that defined him.

I wanted to protect her, and, if I couldn’t do that, I’d at least be there for her. (Eric)

But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.

You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court.

For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad. But I could never find me a double hammock

Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role.

But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people call the monotony of life.

I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.