Make thyself perfect; others, happy.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

Something still exists as long as there's someone still around to remember it.

Maybe you should just take it off up in my room and I can help you get dry.” He leaned in, his full lips right on my ear. “Or make you wetter.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling. Women are the same with their lovers.

A young man should ask himself not if it is his duty to go to the heathen, but if he may dare stay at home. The command is so plain: “Go.”

I like the fact that a modern television and modern drama on cable has characters that are really intricate and deep and have multiple layers.

My interest in political philosophy was rather casual until I met Hayek.

The love of God is not something vague or generic; the love of God has a name and a face: Jesus Christ.

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.