Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

To be creative, first we must be generous. Then we must have a quiet, indomitable belief in our own worth.

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

You don't need Beanie Sigel in the building with a pre-perception that this crazy dude might do anything.

I am Bourbon as a matter of honour, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character.

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really cool.

The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.

My vision is to work for the relationship between India and Pakistan which would be like the relation between Canada and the United States.

Organizations are, in the last analysis, interactions among people.