The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

Purpose is what gives life meaning.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

All true manliness grows around a core of divineness.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.

Learning never ends, we may stop learning but life will keep teaching us something on each and every stage.

Action cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with ignorance. Knowledge alone destroys ignorance, as light destroys dense darkness.

You see what you expect to see, Severus.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business.

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

If you're injecting fear into other people, then you're trying to kill their minds. You're trying to get them to stop thinking.