Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.

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.

We are leashed by societal norms, defined by our willingness to conform, but limited only by our imagination.

We can only become a better person if we have the inclination and the resolve, only if we accept that life is a learning curve and all experiences add something to our personality.

Subtlety may deceive you integrity never will.

When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!

Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.

I think we live only through our dreams and our imagination.

The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.

Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.

I think about my own daily choices every day in terms of how to find happiness.

I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.