The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

Every country has the government it deserves.

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Nothing is more honoring to your heavenly Father than making life decisions based upon what he has claimed about himself.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palins ignorance of public affairs is monumental.

We humans have many vestigial features proving that we evolved. The most famous is the appendix.

All pain is the same. Only the details are different.

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

Love is manifested not only through the distribution of one's possessions, but even moreso through the spreading of the word of God and helpful deeds.

It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong.

If you live the life you love, you get the blessing from above.