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

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

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.

It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.

Perception is reality.

The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.

How grand is victory but how dear!

I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.

A faith-holder puts himself below his faith and lets it guide his actions. The fanatic puts himself above it and uses it as an excuse for his actions.

Officiating is the only job in America that everybody knows how to do better than the guy who is doing it.

Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts.

I think this group of people came together in a way that they haven't before in 2007. I'm very optimistic we can do something ... I want to get there, I want to support this.

I love standing under a steaming shower when I'm tired in the morning. I don't really get a chance for baths.

I'm always, all the time, eating chocolate. I eat pretty healthy, but then I go all out when it has to do with chocolate.