So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

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.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.

Because this is how it feels to live my life: scattered, fragmented, and exhausting.

When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough.

I did, I'd say, at least about 80 percent of the rest of the driving, and I had the time of my life.

We misread the Fifth Amendment [of Constitution] and have been misreading it for the past three decades.

Maybe my pain was my motivation.

I saw that streak in him when he told me, 'Get the hell out of here or I'll wipe you out., I got the hell out of there, Liston really scared me.

I think that we need to measure how we give dollars to libraries by need. And the communities that are poor, in my opinion, should get more because you have to do more outreach.