self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

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.

We all make mistakes, but one of our biggest mistakes is continually revisiting the past.

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect.

Im thinking of going into rehab. Im not addicted to anything, but I think its good way to jumpstart an acting career.

The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come out of the hand itself.

You might say that death has relaxed me.

I don't want to conquer you; I just want to climb you.

Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.

You've got to be realistic.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.