Youth is life's beautiful moment.

It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.

In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and the law which liberates.

Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.

Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything.

Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man.

The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.

After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world.

Nothing is achieved without solitude.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.

In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?

I'm a sucker for a man who giggles-not a high-pitched serial-killer sort of giggle, but a lighthearted laugh.

How big can we get before we get bad?

Difficult takes a day Impossible takes a week I do this in my sleep

I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Don't seek to be a person of fame, for even villains can be famous. Instead, be a person of value. Fame fades but value is honored.

Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.