The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.

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.

Think of working forever at something you love to do, for [the] one you love with all your heart, and never getting tired! We will never know weariness in heaven.

I never liked the influence of others when it came to feelings. I rather went through the painful process of analyzing everything half to death.

Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful!

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

I am one of the happiest people I know. And that's a weird place to have arrived at from being a depressed Jewish kid.

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.

Cut your coat according to your cloth.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

I honestly just love being in my studio working on music. That's all the inspiration I need. And I don't write with an end result in mind, I just write for the simple love of writing.

Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen