Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

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.

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

Think Big, Start Small

Ideas shape the course of history.

It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.

Simplicity is a state of mind.

With prayer, you may be able to start one discipline or habit that will overflow into many more positive, God-honoring traits.

It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

It's not healthy for a society if the people hate their own government.

Knavery is ever suspicious of knavery.

Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment.