True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.

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.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

My only drive was to be the best dancer in the world, but I never won the world championship.

When somebody promises to do something, you have to think about whether that's something that you would be willing to see happen because the powers are simply too vast.

Learning the secrets and skill of great No.2s remains the surest path to becoming No. 1.

For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death.

Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.

A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.

Its crazy! I'm watching Linsanity hoping every shot goes in. Hope I never grow up.