In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.

The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.

Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.

The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.

To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow.

There is only one thing in the world that is really valuable, it is to do good.

We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future... - "pourra", Fr.) build justice.

Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.

As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards ("marcher vers", Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.

I'd tell you to go to hell but I don't want to see you again.

The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact.

I think, as everyone knows, Charles Kushner is one of the most successful businessmen in the United States and one of the great philanthropists of this century.

As a musician, I have always refrained from criticizing another artist.

...nothing good can proceed from our will until it be formed again, and that after it is formed again in so far as it is good, it is of God, and not of us.

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can't condescend.

It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life

Unfortunately we have tried to establish Right by Might, and you can 't do that.

We are not the Red Indians.