All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.

The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

Don't be discouraged if the people around you don't see what you see in your dream. Most great people were doubted in the beginning of their journey to greatness.

[God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.

Wit is cultured insolence.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.

I'm a meat girl and I just love having a beer.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

Imagine, to become a priest there are eight years of study and preparation, and then if after a while you can't do it, you can ask for a dispensation, you leave, and everything is OK.

I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.

And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions.