My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

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.

A thousand time knocked down by life

Damn, her mouth was a weapon.

There is not always 'two sides to every issue.' That statement is a ridiculous slogan invoked by vested interests and perpetuated by minds of limited scope.

What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Love cannot be measured by its duration.

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

The grass is not always greener on the other side. You learn to appreciate these people.

I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.

To be loved, I think, is the thing that gets you up in the morning.

Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.