Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes

You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Why were you watching me change?" I explain. "Uh, 'cause I'm a guy?" He flips the pillow and slaps it, fluffing it. Then he rolls over and closes his eyes again.

The Chairman glared across three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers of space at Conrad Taylor, who reluctantly subsided, like a volcano biding its time.

If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.

KFC has no excuse for refusing to adopt these basic, minimal animal-welfare standards ... After two years of fruitless negotiations with the company, we're trying a more personal approach.

One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.

Those moments when you don't feel self-conscious, when you escape that, are when you produce something meaningful.

Address things now that could otherwise turn into regrets.

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more of a story.

I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that just love who you wish and celebrate it the best you can.

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest