Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

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.

Do not look after people with big titles. Look after people with big characters.

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.

Now I know what a TV dinner feels like.

I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works.

Achieve order within yourself...an inward tranquility which knows no disturbance at any moment...in the daily life of the home and the office.

No, I've never truly been a minister.

Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.

The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.