Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.

Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.

When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me realize people and dogs are the crazy ones.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor — poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

Things don't always happen the way we planned. As we learn to trust in God's plan, we will see that He has our best interests at heart.

Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, "To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day.

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

I believe that through music we can help heal the world.

One [Big Data] challenge is how we can understand and use big data when it comes in an unstructured format.

The four rules of writing... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from the Creator. 4. Write what you will.