Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

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.

One should marry when one stops having a good time and settle down.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate.

Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?

Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges

I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.

I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action

The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

There is the easy way and there is my way.