I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by 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.

It is much more worthwhile to implement only one bright idea than collecting a thousand of them.

The best carpenters make the fewest chips.

I'd sit on a horse and forget I was even sick.

Kill them all, God will recognise his own.

An advantage of having one child is you always know who did it.

The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.

I bring a record home, and it connects with me like nothing else. In my ideal situation, somebody will do that with my record.

He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation.

Guys have guy/girl relationships so that they can have their own guy thing plus the sensitive thing with the girl.

Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.