Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened.

It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.

In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and the law which liberates.

Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.

Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything.

Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man.

The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.

After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world.

Nothing is achieved without solitude.

you know what her punishment is for tormenting you way back when?" he said.I looked at him.He said, "her punishment is being her,

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

America is a country that would rather talk about race than class.

Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view.

The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.

My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.

One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

Politics will take whatever shape it needs for people to get elected. But at the end of the day, the population remains and that's really, as an educator, who I care about.

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.