Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.

The best is the enemy of good.

Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.

What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardon each other's follies. This is the first principle of natural right.

I love to start the morning with a mist spray, especially after a night out.

We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don't have money to go to a doctor. You help them.

I think people are losing that sense of security pretty fast, frankly.

There is one allegiance that unites us all, and that is to America.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.

It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

Just remember, stealing's punishable by death