The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.

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.

You never know how long it will take. The route to success is unpredictable. So pack the essentials: parcels of love and peace, packets of patience and hope, and bundles of perseverance!

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.

Governance allows organizations to...achieve unprecedented automation.

I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious.

The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.

Honestly, ever since I've been married, the part of a job as an actress where you have to kiss other people, I find totally bizarre.

I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.

I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit...it reaches folks who don't care for organized religion in a different way.

The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself.