A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

What I cannot touch, remains a memory. I am blinded by an imagined light. A remembrance of what can never be.

We are the children of one creator. We are different in some ways. Yet, we are equal.

Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

Some of us should learn to ask for bold things that require God.

I'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.