There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.

The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

Moral conduct in the worldly life [vyavahaar charitra] is to behave in a way that hurts no woman and to not look at a woman lustfully.

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labour employed.

I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though youre poking fun at someone or something, theres still an affection for it.

My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not

Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.

Everybody I know who goes out and plays a little softball, they break their leg.

Trust is won not given.

Life is full of chances -- and those times when we each trust our own guts and have a terrific outcome reaffirms our ability to make good decisions.