People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.

Hatred is one of the poisons; like jaundice, it alters the true colors of things.

You can't remain inactive in the face of injustice without, to some extent, being guilty of it.

Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind.

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.

I always feel sorry for people who think more about a rainy day ahead than sunshine today.

The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.

There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant.

The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.

The strength of weak people constantly appalls me. Have you ever seen a vine kill an oak tree? Deadly.

… a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.

The repeated interpretations that you place on your experiences will never fail to determine your constant feelings towards them.

People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.

Let us be convinced that nothing can happen to us apart from the providence of God.

I'm very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts.

We can live nuanced, complicated, exciting lives with no reason for limitation.

President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially with the lives of military soldiers, Marines, navy.

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.