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 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.

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.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

VOA no longer felt like a sanctuary but rather a mirage and we were desert wanderers.

Being gentle doesn’t stop us fighting for our dreams.

There is a lie in between a promise and many excuses.

Like cars, every relationship requires a bit of an occasional service, and fine-tuning should be compulsory.

I do like artfully breaking rules.

Female sexuality is presented in our culture as a male fantasy, which doesn't include the reality of the abuse, the pleasure, the pain, the power, the complexity of women's sexuality.

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

Good customer service begins at the top. If your senior people don't get it, even the strongest links further down the line can become compromised.