No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

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.

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments then the wind blows your footprints away.

It's rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry.

The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? it is neither.

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

Every musical scene has a cycle.

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

This aged economic system is out of date!

Let’s be clear about this. The rejection of the constitution was a mistake that will have to be corrected.

I've never been very fully employed either.