He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

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.

Men take care of your responsibilities with maturity.

A well-spun tale can transport listeners away from their humdrum lives and return them with an enlarged sense of the world. (Peter Nimble)

Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God.

Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.

My sophomore year I placed 2nd, and my junior and senior year - I got smart and piled up enough points between myself and second place where I didn't have to run the mile.

The blessing that I got from my parents, even if they didnt really teach me about money, was their simple lifestyle.

I don't come up with ideas, they come to me. I write them down and try to convey what's wrong with me to the audience as best I can.

I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.

If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place.

I have a choice - I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can't do both.