The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

Love is the symbol of eternity.

Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

Prayer is the life of the soul.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Too often it is fear that guides our actions when compassion would better serve.

The world is so full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

You can't have thousands of people being shot in a city, in a country that I happen to be president of. Maybe it's OK if somebody else is president.

Self-acceptance is involved in this process. You have got to be able to look at both your dark and your light side and not get enamored or depressed by either.

There is nothing without reason.

However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.

The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.

Considering the alternative. . . it's not too bad at all.

You made a point about proof. In this sort of history we do nt have proof... Yet... the incontrovertibility of the evidence can be plain even when it is not documentary or complete.