He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

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.

What's often not acknowledged about depression is how much anger is in it.

Self-publishing is great, but I don't want to be an icon for it, or anything else.

I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.

You're just part of the soup of the universe, so just try to enjoy what's good about it.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

Saying "I feel guilty" is a mere form of words. Saying "I feel ashamed" is not.

We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.

The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.

No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'

If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would feel very confident putting early Van Halen forward as our champion.