It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

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.

Is it difficult to recognize spring when the air is dancing with joy and the flowers are blooming bright colorful smiles?

Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being, and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond.

Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please. Please. If you're up there. Somewhere.

If a country has a fascist leader, this is a great horror for that country; but there is much greater horror: The existence of ignorant and unethical masses who support that primitive leader!

I just wish people would realize that anything's possible if you try; dreams are made possible if you try.

... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.