The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

To love is to will the good of the other.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Sometimes things do not go the way one wanted them to go... At times like this, one would wish that one had not dreamt so much. Just hang in there... destination is just a mile away.

[Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.

I won't have a hard time being brutally honest. But I won't be mean. You don't have to be mean to be honest.

I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.

No one makes a million dollars with minimal effort unless they win the lottery.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

I want to see the birth of my baby. Hopefully it's a boy. He can play for St. John's.

I am addicted to sport. Without sport, I feel bad.

When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.

Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.