The real disturbers of the peace are those who, in a free state, seek to curtail the liberty of judgment which they are unable to tyrannize over.

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.

Passion will warm you for days, infatuation will warm you for months, but love will set you on fire for a lifetime.

Yesterday is done. Today has just begun. I am not going let anyone's negative issues do anything to me other than inspire me to do better.

We've all done things we'd rather keep in the dark. It's only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear.

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

The best way to win at a game of chance is to remove chance from the equation.

You can rescue yourself. No matter how you feel, no matter what you believe about your worth or your capacity to love and be loved, you can change.

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it's many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.

I am too pure for you or anyone.

Every month I look through some ten thousand games, so not as to miss any new ideas and trends.