Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

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 has taken me a lot of years, but I find silence is sometimes the best answer.

All cases are unique and very similar to others.

I'm inspired by making people laugh at subjects that should make them cry.

Goals are harmful unless they guide you to make specific behaviors easier to do. Don’t focus your motivation on doing Behavior X. Instead, focus on making Behavior X easier to do.

What I accomplished definitely wasn't achieved by myself. Without others, none of this would have been possible.

Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.

I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.

The Trump Foundation is a private-family foundation. They give virtually every cent in the Trump Foundation to charitable causes.