Never mistake law for justice. Justice is an ideal, and law is a tool.

Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.

Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.

To that which is born, death is certain; to that which is dead, birth is certain.

Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality.

Most people don’t care who rules, as long as their lives don’t change.

If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed.

No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself.

The end is always the same. That's why what we do does matter. Good or bad, we die. If we bring some light and prosperity into the world, isn't that better than there being less light?

Sow the help of God into your daily battles, and reap a harvest of victory.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

[Pope Francis ] is taken a selfie!He's a tremendous breath of fresh air.

The multiplier effect is a major feature of networks and flows. It arises regardless of the particular nature of the resource, be it goods, money, or messages.

My parents had a huge pile of records - vinyl! - that I loved, especially the Motown stuff, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding.

In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!

It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.

If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it, you will not lose it.

Writing is hard for everybody except fools.

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.