A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.

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.

A book is a dream you hold in your hands

You are the only one who can choose your attitude for you.

I think our insecurities are our biggest challenges, and we all have them. Trust me, I've got plenty of my own.

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

Last year [2015] alone nearly half a million individuals overstayed their temporary visas. Removing these overstays will be a top priority of my administration.

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

Your God is too Small

No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins.

We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.

Societies who do not care for their young people and old people are decadent, decaying societies.