A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.

Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant.

Let him who is not come to logic be plagued with continuous and everlasting filth

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.

Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.

He who will not when he may, may not when he will.

The common people say, that physicians are the class of people who kill other men in the most polite and courteous manner.

Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.

Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would spread my cloak and hide him, that he might not be seen of any.

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions.

Embryonic stem cell research wears no political stripes - it is embraced by conservatives, liberals, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents.

I believe in science but I also believe in fate.

The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.

In 2008, we had barely put our first album out and a lot of people were unsure about us on that tour. But the crowds were insane to say the least.

We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

I'm not a Republican, and I'm not a Democrat.

Normally the meaning of the songs, if there is any, occurs to me after I've written the song.