Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Granted that I must die, how shall I live?

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

Time wounds all heals.

The beauties of the North seemed to be intensified by the loss we had experienced there, and they drew us back to them.

If you blend in, you don't stand out.

I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

One fact we're particularly proud of is that there are more people learning languages on Duolingo in the US than there are people learning languages in the entire US public school system.

The chief is the chief. He is the eagle who flies high and cannot be touched by the spit of the toad.

We will work on inclusive governance for inclusive growth

The only things we keep permanently are those we give away.