There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

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.

A person with negative thoughts can never see the sunshine ( good things ) and feel the warmth ( happiness ) in their heart..

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

Someone asked me if I play piano because I feel like I have a protective wall around me. Maybe. I am really messed up.

Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp.

And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love.

The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculate how to ration various items and resources that we consume, produce and utilize.

Let's be honest, the cards' on the table: Jealousy's a sin, Cain killed Abel. Backstabber...Caesar had Brutus. It's hard to weed 'em out, even Jesus had Judas.

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.