The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man.

It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.

In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and the law which liberates.

Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.

Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything.

Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.

After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world.

Nothing is achieved without solitude.

Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else.

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

God is Santa Claus for Grown-Ups.

I don't take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots.

The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.

Call me Patch. I mean it. Call me.

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do.

Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.