At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

I think that before and after we kissed are two different timelines.

Everyone around you becomes kind and loving when you express your kindness and beauty of love.

Keep the personal, personal and do not be guilty of spreading bad feelings.

Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn't know it.

Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.

We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

Nobody likes tainted victories.

Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.