Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

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.

Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.

Ignore negative criticisms, focus on positive thoughts.

There's no place for someone who can't decide between being one or the other.

Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.

Of all the butterflies that chose to stay, I’m in love with the one that got away.

Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.

The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past.

If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.

As I lay me down to sleep, this I pray. That you will hold me, dear. Though I'm far away, I whisper your name into the sky. And I will wake up happy.

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.