Desire is the very essence of man

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.

Just because you're in a situation, doesn't mean you have to be that situation. You're not the situation you're in!

The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others.

...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair...

It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?

I''ll make it official. I care about Don Draper and what happens to him and I'm not the only one who does.

In light of Jeb Bush's recent fumbles on Iraq , maybe the Clinton campaign is making the smart move here by not saying.

Ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results.

There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.

If you're meeting with the dharma, you have probably been a human being before.