He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

To love is to will the good of the other.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

One can only describe the human but can never define it because humans are complex in their nature.

When I was young I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. I was right.

I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.

This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.

I don't understand the problem with paroling Charles Manson? I say set him free and let him get on with his work. I have a long list of celebrities I'd be glad to share with him.

We've had parallel lives. And frankly, I prefer mine to his. I would not like to be George Bush.

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy.

I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.