In the mind there is no absolute or free will.

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.

The only way for God to conquer the world is through the human flesh and through His spirit

Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.

When you have a plan in your mind of what the best life is for you, but it doesn't match your life, you have pain.

One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.

I believe that anything can be for men or women. I mean, I've worn a lace dress before!

Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.

I want to be rich in all the foods I’ve tasted and all the places I’ve been and all the people I’ve kissed.

All of us, ultimately, we're not that interesting, when it comes down to it.

Physically walking where Jesus walked is less important than walking as He walked.