All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.

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.

At this stage of my life, I've finally come to realize I've learned more from my children than they ever learned from me.

Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness

Stats don't measure an athlete's hunger.

The vitality [of] the Bible [is] exhibited in every generation . . .Its power to transform lives is its best apologetic.

There are too many black players. Italy has no dignity, no pride.

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.

A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.

Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional misinformation spawned by special interests.

To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor, it's the work that matters.

Why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't even really know me?