Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

Love is the symbol of eternity.

Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

Prayer is the life of the soul.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Killing someone usually turns out to be an enormously complicated solution to what was a much simpler problem.

It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.

We all want to experience more happiness, fulfillment, and peace.

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

Given the choice between a woman and a cigar, I will always choose the cigar.

You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.

A sinning man stops praying; a praying man stops sinning.

You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value.

Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.

I have cooked turkeys in my day but when Mom's around I let her do it.