It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

They who know most of God on earth or heaven know that they know little after all; but they know that they may know more and more of Him throughout eternal ages.

When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education

Soul is nothing but the functional expression of protoplasmic activity in the brain.

Politics is but the common pulse beat.

I don't expect to try to get people to like everything I do. I want them to respect what I do.

The only morality in a cruel world is chance.

The multitude . . . have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them. . . . It is not safe to trust to the virtue of any people.

I think it is important that we are targeting HIV/AIDS resources into the communities where we're seeing the highest growth rates. That means education and prevention, particularly with young people.

In the end, there probably isn't much difference between being in love and acting like you're in love.

Accusations are useless.

I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director.

I have stage combat training from college, which is drastically different than fighting for the screen, but I do enjoy that kind of stuff.