Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.

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.

I tended to hate people that hit me in the head without warning.

You need to see a future with such clarity and desirability that you will go through all the uncomfortable things like throws at you to attain it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, time travel's a nightmare. Don't go down that path.

This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.

If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it'll just always be shallow.

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

I always think the toughest commentary is on a bad goalless draw. If I were assessing a young commentator, I would rate him on a game where nothing is happening.

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

It's a hard, simple calculus: Run until you can't run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster.

If you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner