The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great

Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.

The simple truth is that life goes on whether we're ready or not.The question we need to ask ourselves is, do we find a way to embrace it, or do wesit back and allow it to pass us by?

Ed?" Ritchie says later. We're still standing in the water. "There's only one thing I want.""What's that, Ritchie?"His answer is simple."To want.

Self-confidence is not a fixed way of being. People are not born with certain levels of self-confidence, it can be acquired, and it can be lost.

White people who are doing this work need to make their stories known to serve as guides for others.

There is an association between the number of hours that the television is on at home and early childhood aggression.

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

Simply the best! Great music, extremely entertaining.

I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life that changes people or affects people.

Working people really amaze me. When you give them all the facts, they make the right decision every single time.