It is the first care of a reformer to prevent any future reformation.

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.

All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do.

The Lord God must be greatly feared!

Sand in reality is nothing else than very small stones.

I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It's just hard to get comfortable with Gore - it was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.

The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.

Rare are the people who can capture a human being.

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

I know what it takes to make a band, how they should interact, what makes a record sound like it's a band - everything having to do with a band, I happen to be into.

I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.