The idea of public reason has to do with how questions should be decided, but it doesn't tell you what are the good reasons or correct decisions.

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.

The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

Justice is happiness according to virtue.

A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.

The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.

Nobody knows you.You don't know yourself.And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with?My own imaginings?

He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.

My lifesaver has always been the hazel iris of your soul. It never fails. When the world plunges me deep into the darkness, one look from you is all it takes to save me.

Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure

When you're older, you'll appreciate the advantages of sleeping alone.

I live in Connecticut, but eventually I'd like to move back to New Orleans. I grew up there; the pace is a bit slower. Plus, I love crawfish and po'boys.

I intend to be, the richest man in the world.

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

If we are truly humble , we will co-operate.

The big trouble is not really who isn't in the Hall of Fame, but who is. It was established for a select few.