A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

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.

When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration - joy and pain - sit side by side.

Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.

The truth invariably arrives several years after you need it.

Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.

You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.

Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.