The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.

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.

of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve

It's not the best life in the world, but it's all I know.

Perfect, just what I need this morning, another episode in battle of the wits.

Ebola has arrived in New York City. And I say, 'if it can make it there...it can make it anywhere!'

It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

I just want to sleep and exercise and travel for fun. And relax. It sounds so ordinary, but I haven't done it for 20 years.

We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible.

To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.