Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

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.

Smartass Disciple: Three years! I've listened you preaching just for this silly truth?Master of Stupidity: Who said I was preaching? Who said anything about the truth?

Still we remain, still we fight. Still we strive, still we survive.

I've always played for the acceptance of my godfather (Willie Mays) and father (Bobby Bonds).

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.

You need help, and that's what books are for.

Discover your strengths and then hone them and be who you are meant to be.

I could never sit down and write jokes.

I think if you put something in a file that says "war poems" or "love poems" that you already restrict the way in which the poem might move.