Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.

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 warrior is Here, Now.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

lying in bed with Johnny Depp sussing out which males are what kind of pet from their clothes.

We measure success and depth by length and time but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.

The only thing I like about air travel is it gives me time to read.

It's all background experience and listening and exposure. That's why it's so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

It's ridiculous. My life's been a series of happy accidents.

I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.

I feel a bit awkward playing in a red shirt out at Wimbledon. But I don't dislike it.