The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes

You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Anyone can put paint on a canvas, but only a true master can bring the painting to life. Anyone can kill, but only a genius can make murder an art.

You're being parental', I said. 'Go find that squid'.

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous.

Our people should feel free to express diverse views, pursue unconventional ideas or simply be different.

I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.

Radio broadcasting was only 25 years old when I was born in 1932.

Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.

I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.

The salat can be made up for, but there is no making up for false show or outward worship without presence.