Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.

The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things

The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body

For though men be ignorant, yet they are men

men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and consequently for each individual man.

I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.

Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.

I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.

Prediction is a low form of journalism.

For God loves to be entreated, He loves to be compelled.

There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in it.

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.

Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!