The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.

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.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.

Real men do not work for fame. That is what I think. Popularity is just a piece of crap. I prefer a private life.

Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.

For us to be successful on defense, we must get back and stop the basketball, eliminate easy baskets, keep the ball out of the lane, and bother the shooters.

I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed.

Healing the Earth, through Healing Birth.

In Greece we're too poor to go to psychiatrists -- we have friends instead.

Stop thinking you have to go to big industry to have a big life, because it's not the truth.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.