If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

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.

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

And he (King David) died in a good old age full of days riches and honour.

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.

Could he actually be my muirn beatha dan?

I was very thrilled to witness the workby my ol' buddy Jim Widner whose expertise in the field of jazz education proved invaluable in putting this masterful CD (Yesterdays & Today) together.

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.

Charging for news online won't work if what is provided is the same as is available elsewhere.

I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.