Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes

You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.

Books allow you to open doors, and chapters allow you to explore

If someone offers you a three picture deal at 20 you'd take it. I would have killed for it.

The Mets has come along slow, but fast!

[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?

[Non-Catholic Christians are] in a gravely deficient situation in comparison with those who, in the [Roman Catholic] church, have the fullness of the means of salvation.

I suppose I'd get in trouble if I were to melt them down.

Kindness begets kindness evermore.

Better is not good enough; the best is yet to come!

We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it.