The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

Science is nothing but perception.

Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Learning to be and learning to be creative are two sides of the same coin.

If you don't like something in your life, look only at who you are.

Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.

Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.

I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time.

The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.

Love is not about two people doing things similar. It is about two people doing things differently to cover one another's flaws, and making it a perfect whole.

Who would have thought that [director] Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? It's a punishing picture, a betrayal of everything that Crowe has proved he knows how to do right.