Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.

When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

The best revenge is the time. Time takes it's revenge all the time.

Make a start, even if you have a controversial idea!

At the end of the day it's the end of the day.

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

I release any feelings of competition or comparison. I simply do my best and enjoy being me.

Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge.

Most decisions are seat-of-the-pants judgments. You can create a rationale for anything. In the end, most decisions are based on intuition and faith.

A blunt blade is more dangerous than a sharp one