Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

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.

Ah youth, youth! That's what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare

Sometimes life seems a dark tunnel with no light at the end, but if you just keep moving forward, you will end up in a better place.

If they don't walk away, we have to walk away, and sometimes we do it crying.

Fool! Nothing but black ink runs through my veins!

If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

All business begins with the public permission and exists by public approval

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.

My first appearance, the first time I try anything, invariably is not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

There's something very refreshing about being on stage.