Mothers should negotiate between nations. Mothers of fighting countries would agree: Stop this killing now. Stop it now.

It will not say, 'Isn't X beautiful?' Such demands are murderous to beauty.

The rainbow across the sky after a storm confirms Your kindness and Your forgiving heart.

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

Kant thinks that a free will is a will under moral laws and that freedom and the moral law are distinct thoughts that reciprocally imply each other. Fichte thinks they are the same thought.

You behave as if everything is funny to you, but you never laugh. Sometimes you smile when you think no one is paying attention.

You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

You can't control what people gravitate to and what they don't. We can only control the work that we do and try to give it the best that we can.

Most men are unwilling to be taught.

'Don't think of it as dying,' said Death. 'Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush.'