The intercourse between man and God reposes upon truths of another order than that of reason, upon a light different and more elevated than that which naturally enlightens created intelligences.

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

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.

She should have know that villains often come with pretty faces.

I think that the growing government control of the press is very clear. Turkey is still not a dictatorship, there is still some freedom of the press, but I think it's moving in the wrong direction.

Empowering women means trusting them.

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

The gospel is not weight, it is wings. It carries us.

Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.

I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever, and I've just grown older. I mean, I haven't lost anything. I've gained a few things.

Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic."

Nature never gives everything at once.

No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all.