A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens.

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

Purity both of the body and the soul rests on the steadfastness of the will strengthened by God's grace, and cannot be forcibly taken from an unwilling person.

... The soul which is led by God and His wisdom, rather than by bodily concupiscence, will certainly never consent to the desire aroused in its own flesh by another's lust.

There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true piety of life if they have the skill for ruling people should also have the power.

When consent takes the form of seeking to possess the things we wish, this is called desire. When consent takes the form of enjoying the things we wish, this is called joy.

He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.

Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace.

This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction.

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

That ability to press immediately, within five or six seconds to get the ball, is important

Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.

Through my whole career, that's been a major thing - bringing my family with me.

Renewing the promise of America begins with upholding the dignity of human life.

I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love...

Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music.

Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.