Let us respect even error when it has its source in virtue.

Hope is slowly extinguished and quickly revived.

Avarice is rarely the vice of youth.

Can mortal prayers ensure immortal happiness?

How we are born to invent our own miseries!

Benevolence, like religion, awes even those it cannot win.

How easy it is to be unknown!

Society, that first of blessings, brings with it evils death only can cure.

I did wonder if I'd have cause to rue my action. Now I believe it can safely be filed under Necessary Regrets.

Enemies can also be friends.

When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.

If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.

Don't waste your time trying to turn ducks into eagles. Hire people who already have the motivation and drive to be eagles and then just let them soar.

My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young women of her generation, which are so rarely articulated.

American capitalism has helped finance the communist take over of the world. Somebody is going to answer to God for this.

If you don't leave, I'll get somebody who will.

Greatness is the willingness to choose in the midst of intensity.

He simply contemplated human realities from a divine perspective.