Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue.

It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in the peaceful possession of what belongs to him.

The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.

Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.

Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.

To reign by opinion, begin by trampling it under your feet.

The Catholic must adopt the decision handed down to him; the Protestant must learn to decide for himself.

Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.

Truth is no road to fortune.

Those that dare not to dream big are cowards, for they fear to expose the already great potentials embedded inside of them.

God trained Moses in a palace to use him in a desert. He trained Joseph in a desert to use him in a palace.

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.

It is time now for us to rise from sleep.

On a good bargain think twice.

A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.

Young children are such nasty little beasts!

I want to go to college for literature. I want to be a writer. I mean, I love what I do, but its not all I want to do-be a professional liar for the rest of my life.

Our initial assessment is that they will all die.