Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.

When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

He tasted passion. He tasted emotion. He tasted a world he’d never imagined, one he could never enter. It was right there in front of him, suddenly open to him. Unexpected. Exciting. Scary.

Fill what’s empty, empty what’s full, and scratch where it itches, your Grace. That’s my motto.

The depth of your challenges will determine the heights of your success in life

We don't do laundry because that requires a lot of water, and water's at a premium up here. Plus, it'd be pretty complicated, I think, to make a space washer, although I guess you could do it.

It is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends.

I read the whole Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. They don't take long.

I came to the Braves on business, and I intended to see that business was good as long as I could.

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

The eternal Son of God became the sinless son of Man that the sinful sons of men might become the beloved sons of God.

The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It’s for their own good.