If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

She’d fallen into a deep silence once, when the sun appeared, and it was then he’d wondered most what she was thinking.

Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself.

Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.

True love happened rarely and standing in the brink of one, it would in all certainty be an act of cowardice to retreat without letting her know his desire.

Really, UCLA's a great place as well, but they don't have the kind of environment they have here. The fans here have a passion.

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story.

We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.

It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.

God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.