Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.

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.

It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.

Botox is as common as seagulls in Sarasota, but most of the women I know who use the dermatologist’s little helper still have full range of expression. Except squinting, of course.

Never say more than is necessary.

Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment: the monotony undermines our dopamine and attentional systems crucial to our brain plasticity.

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

If you love a person, you love him in his stark reality, and refuse to shut your eyes to his defects and errors.

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit

Have a little faith in me, Volger." "I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance.

To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem.