It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

Science is nothing but perception.

Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?

To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.

Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

Laughter makes me come alive. Either being made to laugh or igniting it.

I think there are all kinds of intrusions into private rights that make use of contemporary technology.

And does not true freedom mean choosing ways in this world that lead to the good of all and are guided by love?

Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

There is no one else at all who is fighting ISIS on the ground, except for President al-Assad's army.