When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any

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.

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

He wasn't yours to get hurt by. He was someone else's and you knew that, so why are you offended? What right do you have to be hurt when you were a part of the deception (lying by omission)?

Oh the wonders of being married. Put a gun in one hand and a woman in the other, I'm never sure who's going to kill me first.

This doesn't mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it's in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal.

Sometimes the most worthwhile things are right in front of our eyes. We just make them hard because we think that gives them more value.

Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!

This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.