Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.

Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence that creatures can exhibit of their sincere and supreme love to him.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing.

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one.

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?

What I really want, and what I never get - is to be appreciated.

I've always seen the bright lights of the angels, and I know that lower-entities can't disguise this light, because it only comes from the Love of God.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.

The body is some kind of image of you, it's kind of something that's just attached to your soul, some kind of outside principle, which doesn't really represent who you really are.

He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.

We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you secure your own?