The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

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.

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.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

If someone looks into your eyes, I read in a book one time, he'll see right into your soul. I didn't want anyone to see into my soul.

But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.

What you need and what you want aren't the same things.

Hitchcock was one of the few people in Hollywood who had a brand. Every movie he made was an Alfred Hitchcock movie, couldn't have been anyone else.

Most plants taste better when they've had to suffer a little.

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person.

Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.

I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you're in it.

It's always good to get a goal on your first shift, but this was a game it seemed everything was going in.

I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.