Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know

Aggression, rage and violence are archetypal foundations of manhood.

If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind.

I'm always inspired by people who have really cool Twitter profiles.

No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.

Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

I'd make a better U.S. president than George W. Bush. Bush is an idiot. I'm a better public speaker than him. It makes you wonder about the voters.

Love as Thought is Truth.

I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe.