As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.

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.

As muscles waste with no gravity or strain so is our minds when there is no mental challenge or substance to digest

The purpose of education is to create a purpose for life. Go for it with the utmost sincerity.

Because my mother couldn't change my present, I decided to change my daughter's future

I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

I am doing the best I can given what I have today.

Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.

Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.

Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.

At stake are two different visions of faith, the Church of Caesar, powerful and rich; and the Church of Christ - loving, poor and spiritually rich.

Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos. Or if you could instruct people to disregard what you just said, like in a courtroom.