Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

Education made us what we are.

The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call mad.

Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.

Wanderlust is incurable.

No one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems.

Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.

This is the meaning of true love, to give until it hurts.

When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.

I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ

The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.