Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.

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.

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.

There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.

You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.

If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders.

I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.

Symbolic racism is hurtful and it is especially hurtful to Black children who get called Black Pete in school and grow up with the sense that they are inferior to white kids.