Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

The music plays . . . and your sense of reality is heightened to a dream.

I have more care to staythan will to go.

it's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.

Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror.

European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

To avoid the trap of the Pharisees, we've got to guard the interconnection between our thoughts and our attitudes.

You can only start a boy band if you kill one of the other ones already out there.

The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality.

When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary; when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.