Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

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.

Reading is a staple of life, like bread or water. Or chocolate.

Mysteriously, almost unaccountably, my family had ended up in the trees, sort of like the Swiss Family Robinson.

The gastliness of nothing. Because I was nobody's sister now.

No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.

Explicitly Christian themes are regularly excluded from news articles.

We are the hands, feet and mouthpiece of Christ. We are His ambassadors on Earth, called to stop injustice and restore His people.

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

You know I've had work banned.

Your feelings will guide you if you have the courage to tap into them and listen.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!