We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the "thoroughness of his understanding.

In large States public education will always be extremely mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is at best only mediocre.

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

Make no mistake about it, no matter how kind, meek, humble and soft your giving heart is — you are a warrior!

Life is full of positive and negative experiences, but the quality of one's life will always depend on the ones that dominate one's focus the most.

How can we expect wild animals to survive if we give them nowhere in the wild to live?

What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government.

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

How many thoughts float in and out of your head without your stopping to identify them? How many ideas and insights have escaped because you forgot to pay attention?

Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

Meeting expectations is good. Exceeding expectations is better.

If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.