Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

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.

Light and Darkness. One cannot exist without the other. There is no true Master, without the power of balance. ☥

Listen with your eyes as well as your ears.

When the going gets tough the tough get going.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.

Your heart is the face of your spirit, it holds everything you have been, you are, and what you are going to be.

Nothing is worse than what we can imagine.

I want to have schools and libraries and other institutions named after me. I tell my daughter that all the time.

Religions are different roads converging to the same point.

If your husband is cheating on you with a carhop, get Meryl Streep to play you. You'll feel much better.