In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good.

Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.

Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.

Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.

The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.

the story of love and vanity are always as though as ice and heat

Hmmm, you like that, " he whispered, his breath hot and intoxicating. "I like ... everything.

The core of my being is the trigger for the choices I make. With each choice, my personality is enhanced or degraded.

Kissing you is terrifying, breathing your same air makes my knees weak, when I’m around you it’s a tie between wanting to chase you down – or just kiss you until you can’t breathe.

The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet a hundred years ago.

I don't know how you're standing here. Yet you haven't broken. Not where it matters. Having come this far, I'm not sure you can be broken.

We decentralise permissions over the use of our communications.

I don't know if I ever told you this before, but you're the only one I ever waited for this long.

Time is weird in your twenties. It's intense, and you feel like it's running out. But you'll get to thirty and see you are still here on the planet.

Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.