Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.

The simple fact that something has not been done, is no proof that it cannot be.

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.

The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.

The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.

Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.

He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.

He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his character to achieve it.

I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.

Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.

For what are we but our past? If that is lost, we become nothing.

Evils carries the numbers 666. I am an opposite. I am 999.

The universe does not carry debts, it always returns back to you what you gave it.

A good lover is a person who knows how to love deeply but never expects any in return.

When I look at someone's face, I look beyond that face and into the cellular memory in my heart that says, 'Finally you and I have met again. And now we must find out why'.

Goodbys always make my throat hurt... I need more hellos.

We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true.

I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.