Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

The yardstick that we frequently use to determine if something can be restored is based on the handful of inches that we bring to the process, when God shows up with an infinite amount of miles.

he tried to prepare himself for disappointment, even as he yearned to be proven wrong

You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.

I'm just an average woman with average concerns.

Life has more imagination than We carry in our dreams.

There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God.

A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Though strength be wanting, the will to action Merits praise.

I'd forgotten how exuberant you are