The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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.

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

This is the warfare of the future. America's dominance in this arena [cybersecurity] must be unquestioned.

To be consistent in achieving inner peace, we must perceive a world where everyone is innocent.

Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core.

They can't hurt you unless you let them.

My first waitress job was at Johnny Rockets in New Jersey, and then I waited tables at a sports bar.

Each of us has a universal within us. There's always that making of parts - but it doesn't touch the universal within you.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

Whatever I believe here and whatever you think I'm advocating, it's not because I care what happens to the Republican Party. I care about what happens to America!

Sometimes we give too much too soon. Sometimes we hold back for too long. This is our beautiful dance. Our imperfect dance. This is the dance that makes us human.

As Regis Mckenna once said, the best marketing is education