It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

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 underlying melody via every rock, plant, animal, sky and star, inside the water, from the dirt, through the light: only love lasts.

Use your love to change the world, but never change your love for any reason.

God is not a person, God is the underlying consciousness in Existence.

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

As a kid, I would've loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It's great that you can communicate with people and it's instant.

All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony.

Nobody's born rotten. You just don't have bad kids. It's not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them bad.

Some great friendships can be formed because you see one another at your best and worst.

Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure.

When you do enough research, the story almost writes itself. Lines of development spring loose and you'll have choices galore.