God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.

Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.

Liberty is life; slavery is death.

Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.

Only mountains can feel the frozen warmth of the sun through snow's gentle caress on their peaks

Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.

I think planning to be a "professional adventurer" is about as realistic as planning to be a basketball player, so I don't usually encourage it.

Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference.

The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest.

I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.

The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.

Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

I was a great fan of Jim Henson.

When the fighters are in the ring, they want to dictate the pace. I want to dominate, so I want to impose to the other fighter my actions.