In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom.

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer to mistrust my own intellectual capacities than his justice.

Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.

The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

If one were to just understand the worldly life and what it is, he would attain liberation [moksha]. The worldly life is ‘relative’. And “All these relatives are temporary adjustments”.

You are where your brain is but not where a front-page headline is.

I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

Anger, hatred and jealousy never solve problems, only affection, concern and respect can do that.

We can express ideas without being afraid of being killed or imprisoned.

A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

We're not raising grass. We're raising boys.

The internet has made possible a frightening practice of threats and intimidation - threats of unspeakable violence and death.

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.