Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

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 new disease of our age is being OK doing everything at exactly the same time.

All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.

If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.

Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.

Willem, I suspect deep down you know exactly why you're here, exactly what you want, but you're unwilling to the wanting, let alone the having. Because both of those propositions are terrifying.

Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.

Fasting is a tremendous weapon and a source of power in the life of a believer.

I don't think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by my mother.

He thought, or said, or sang, I did not know that I was so empty, to be so full.

Just remember if we get caught, you're deaf and I don't speak English.