In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire of both sides.

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Imam Hussain's sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightousness.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor.

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

We are the change we have been waiting for.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader.

Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.

We open the halves of a miracle, and a clotting of acids brims into the starry divisions: creation's original juices, irreducible, changeless, alive: so the freshness lives on

You can stop anything but a person with a good attitude.

Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.