Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.

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.

A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

Challenge each problem you face with purposeful thought and determined action. Resolve that 'every' situation you encounter will make you better, stronger, wiser, more skillful and more loving.

Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.

You know what? Joy is the only guide. I'm going to have fun regardless.

Youth take responsibility for your own spiritual well being

Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.