Hope is slowly extinguished and quickly revived.

Avarice is rarely the vice of youth.

Can mortal prayers ensure immortal happiness?

How we are born to invent our own miseries!

Benevolence, like religion, awes even those it cannot win.

Let us respect even error when it has its source in virtue.

How easy it is to be unknown!

Society, that first of blessings, brings with it evils death only can cure.

You see, my mind takes me far, but my heart dreams of return.

A book is a dream you hold in your hands

(...) I'm not much of anything, (...) besides bored and boring, punctuated by fits of scant self-amusement. And you are ...?

I'm not Martin Luther King. I can't be Martin Luther King. The only thing I can do is present what I feel the essence of Martin Luther King is.

In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.

An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself.

The first thing you need to make clear to a client is that you aren't there to answer his wants but to answer his needs.

The thing we've learned from the last 20 years of counterterrorism is the significant value you get from removing leadership from the battlefield in degrading the organization.

Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.