What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.

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.

They were just the ordinary sounds of of people beginning their day, silly raucous, discordant, but they were the most beautiful sounds on earth, the sounds of living people.

Im one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. Im just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

I'm not mean, just aggressive.

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Werewolves? Oh please, just plain stupid. Who wants to get it on with a man ruled by his inner dog?

Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.

I'm quite open to the fact that I might be a tinfoil-hat freak

The process of making music is more interesting to me than the end result. If I was a cook, I'd be more interested in cooking food than eating food.

Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.

Never mind what I told you - you do as I tell you.