Demographics don't lie, economies don't lie. When the median age of your population is twenty-four-years-old and a quarter of the working population's unemployed - this is not a recipe for success.

If history's any judge, you might have democratic leanings in a revolution but that doesn't necessarily mean that the revolution is going to end up with democratic results.

The fundamental truth is that the guys with the guns matter more than most.

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

Give light, and people will find the way...

Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

I get literally a physical sensation of low self-esteem that is a result of not engaging the world and getting comfortable that way.

I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.

The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with so much the more pleasure, as they are always masters of themselves.

But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.

Come not within the measure of my wrath.