All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.

... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.

Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.

Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.

Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.

To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole.

Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good.

[T]o know means to reach the reality of existing things[.]

The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.

When the police willfully break the law on video and then deny the event in writing, you know that you are dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people.

Before you step out into the world today, remember that you will encounter people whose struggles you do not know. Remember the way a pair of eyes light up when greeted with kindness.

And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong.

We've been able to organize the international community around it in ways that aren't going to go back.

We don't really have a star system in Canada, so to try and get people to watch your show or stand-up is always a challenge. That's the trick.

I could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live.

We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.

Great leaders are never too proud to learn.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

Consumers no longer want only a great product - they want to buy products from companies that align with their own character and values.