Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

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.

Life's always sweeter behind River Nile! Cross it

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

People always say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but really that's what I see life is about... you have to change.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Entertainment and art are not isolated

Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.

The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.

Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.