The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

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.

This is Leo. I'm the... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or...""Repair boy.""Very funny, Piper.

My mother is a living angel

Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.

I ALWAYS intended to return to the private sector.

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

Joan Rivers is 80 and she's fantastic. She lives in mortal fear of not filling that 1,500-seat room.

Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.

If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun.