The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.

It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.

In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and the law which liberates.

Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.

Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything.

Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man.

After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world.

Nothing is achieved without solitude.

Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else.

if you don't have any weird moments, you're weird

Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

Strip malls are history.

We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.

NATO is built on security, but it's also built on values.

Every day has its own challenges, and every day those challenges make us stronger.

What doesn't kill you, makes you fat.

You know how people are about not taking care of an animal; they consider it immoral and antiempathic. I mean, technically it's not a crime like it was right after WWT but the feeling's still there.