Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

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.

Indecision is a decision not to use life’s first gift to you – the power of choice.

humans without humanity, a war-torn world for eternity

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

Finest fur may cover toughest meat.

My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis.

It is only the quietest one who can hear all the voices of the world; only the shadows can see all the lights!

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

There are enough people in the world who are going to write you off. You don't need to do that to yourself.

FACT: You CAN make money doing what you love! Even in a down economy!