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

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.

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.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Biologically valid races are not real, but cultural racism is, and we must understand how this cultural reality affects our everyday interactions.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.

Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.

The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated.

I believe in God; I'm not saying I'm highly religious.

Sophia Loren, whose new baby asked her, Is all that for me? Never got a dinner!

A true champion is not only formed in victory. To be defeated makes you learn.

We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.

I think for far too long the Church has concluded that Christians don't need the gospel, it's simple what non-Christian people need in order to be saved.