In order to join vigorously in the moral work of the world I must believe that somehow the best I can accomplish will endure, will leave its trace on things, will aid the final consummation.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others.

To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

What I state as certain is certain for me. It has approved itself as such in my experience. Let others consult their experience, and see how far it tallies with that which is here set forth.

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

Love sought is good but given unsought is better.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

I actually think that her [Hillary Clinton] numbers are artificially low.

I'd never let anybody share dessert with me or even have a taste.

This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice.

A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul - His dancing breaks beyond the mind's control.

I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.

In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.

I mean, I must confess I don't own Harry Potter DVDs. My parents do. They have them all. And they like watching them.