The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

Science is nothing but perception.

Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

To know oneself and one’s end or goal in life is true wisdom—knowledge of the heart more than the head.

Man is the only creature which rises by bowing for he finds elevation in his subjection to his Maker.

I really feel like I'm a liberal because I'm a Catholic, because I took the words of the New Testament to heart.

Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

The welfare of a child is not to be measured by money only, nor by physical comfort only.

The median isn't the message.

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination

A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story