It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

To love is to will the good of the other.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

No one's serious at seventeen, When lindens line the promenades

Don't be about just any life. Be about the life you want to be about.

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

Comedians are the one who have to tell the emperor he has no clothes on.

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

I can't wait until the record label feels like it's time for my album to come out, and then just disappear.

I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.

We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on.

When you're older you want to learn from other people.