Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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 more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.

Strength is Happiness.

We are all equal, rich and poor and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

Death and hell are never full, and neither are men's eyes.

The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.

I hated suits until I wore a Calvin Klein; they just fit me.

man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity

For he that but conceives a crime in thought, Contracts the danger of an actual fault.

If we could just go back the last two or three years and do our buying a little more carefully, why... we would be O.K.