Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

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.

I think age is really changing how I write and the themes that I connect with. But there are also things I'm really intrigued about.

I don't really go out much at all. But there are times when I'm like, 'I gotta get out.' Then we go to Vegas, and we'll gamble.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

... orders come from the work, not work from the orders.

I played so perfect, I couldn't play more perfect.

A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.

Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen.

If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor.

The state of ill health is a moment to moment happening. Healing is moment to moment balance, bringing awareness to our thoughts, feelings and emotions and how we respond.

I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.