To understand something is to be delivered of it.

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.

Love is a trick best performed by men.

There are no heroes and there are no villains. There are just opposing points of view. That's all history is...the viciously long battle between world views.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.

Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds.

These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.

It's not that women don't feel things, we do. We fall in love, we get our hearts broken, we're disappointed and sad, but we've also been taught that you must always have your pride. Above all.

I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.

Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons.