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.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.

To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven.

I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.

Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.

And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority.

Prepare for every game like you just lost your last game.

The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true.

It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators all, and I recommend to you this moral: In real life it takes only one to make a quarrel.