If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us 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.

God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.

If you know the power of your thoughts, you would never fear failure.

I do not take advice from people who are 100 percent sure. I take advice from those that believe they are as close to sure as possible, but understand they could be completely wrong.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something can come to you from the outside.

If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead.

We serve a God that does His greatest works when it becomes impossible for us.

But I know loving someone means losing a part of myself.

Let’s just say it’s not a stereotype that Black women are less submissive and harder to deal with. Being around them Black women made me really miss my wife.

You need to surround yourself with quality human beings that are intelligent and have a vision.