All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

You can only govern men by serving them.

The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all.

Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice demands.

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright.

If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.

Leave the world in better conditions in wich you found it.

We are wonderful souls in a wondrous world.

It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.

There are no days more full than those we go back to.

There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.

I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults.

Freedom is participation in power.

As a collegiate, I think you spend 50 percent of your time recruiting. It is a distasteful process.

If you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate