A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational

The things that we love tell us what we are.

To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

To love is to will the good of the other.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.

The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated.

Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away.

I used to live in a gap jumper, tracksuit bottoms and a fake flower in my hair. Shocking.

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

I think the most critical needs of the African-American communities aren't being addressed primarily because of decisions being made by Republican Congressional leaders.

I don't want to be the next anyone. I just want to be me, now. And that means all different things.

I'm completely fascinated with American politics because I think they dictate the politics of every nation of the Western world. So, it's very interesting to follow what's going on over here.

Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.