You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations.

As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.

Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul.

We are made to know and love God.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.

God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.

You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.

We only live once. Well we might get to live more than just once but we don't and wouldn't know a thing about it even if we do. Therefor we should live our life to the fullest in this life time

2There is no greater thing in life than that secret sense of harmony that unites us briefly with the great mysteries of others and allows us to travel alongside them for part of the way.

To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the next generation in the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us.

In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.

I've met you many times Lucinda, and most of the time, you're a downright bore.

Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

To green our country, regular people will have to put on hard hats and work boots, roll up their sleeves - and get to work.

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.