Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have 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.

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.

In most cases, failure is not determined by the obstacles we face, but by how we approach them and what our perceptions whisper to when on encountering eventualities.

pain is like the cold. do not give it your attention. but unlike the cold do not deny being in pain

Finding is for things that are lost. You don't need to find me, Mayor.

Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.

What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.

Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.