Government cannot kill the liberty to think. The idea, the thought, lives forever.

The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white skins, but their consciences are blacker than the skin of the Negro.

The weight of great power crushes the goodness of the man who rules and the honesty of those who are ruled.

Greatness in the making feels just like you feel right now

I arose a mother in Israel.

Order is Heaven's first law.

The universe ought to be presumed too vast to have any character.

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully of now, I think it does teach one to

Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.

Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.

People read fiction for emotion-not information