If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body.

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.

I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He's not just a cat, he's my friend.

If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn't be this secret.

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

Dreams can come true there [Los Angeles]in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well.

Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.

If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lie down and die?

I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.

Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing.

Old age spiritualizes people naturally

I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject.