Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

Just a single cord is enough to be tangled

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.

Tired of nagging your kids to hurry up, get dressed, drink their milk and brush their teeth? Here's a radical idea: Don't.

Real character is formed in the midst of the battles of the soul.

Depression is a side effect of dying. (Almost everything is, really).

But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen. [Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]

At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord.

Let us pray for peace, and let us bring it about, starting in our own homes.