I answer that, Even, as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate.

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.

The heart may not always be practical, but it is always right.

I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to.

Give me neither poverty nor riches feed me with food convenient for me.

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

Everyone thinks that just because you have a Scouse accent, then you must be 'on the rob'.

Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.