The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

I want my kids to enjoy romance as part of the entirety of marriage, when it has been earned with commitment and hard work.

Grace of God, power of God.

Why any one place should forever hold enchantment for the reason you are born there is a mystery.

How those holy men of old could storm the battlements above! When there was no way to look but up they lifted up their eyes to God who made the hills with unshakable confidence.

The lilies say: Behold how we Preach without words of purity.

Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about.

[John] Calvin's Institutes is often called a summary of Christian piety. You can't say that about many modern works of theology. You can say it of Calvin.

Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.