The best is the enemy of good.

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.

Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.

What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardon each other's follies. This is the first principle of natural right.

Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.

Thanks to Obamacare, millions of Americans can visit a doctor’s office and see what a print magazine actually looks like.

Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.

Nurture you mind with great thoughts

It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything.

You're my best friend in the scene and together we can make sense of what's going on by being Together.

Even if the sun refused to shine Even if romance ran out of rhyme You would still have my heart until the end of time You're all I need, my love, my Valentine

Democracy is a danger to any powerful group.

Perhaps by sharing my personal weight-loss journey on television, I can help others confront the truth and lies behind obesity.

Canadians are so easily wounded.