To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…

People with victim mentality, consider actions such as making decisions, setting goals and achieving them to be nothing more than formidable obstacles

There's nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself." Professor Piper

I don't see what else you can spend your money on... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good bet.

I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious

In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

And you call yourself a Christian,' were Hilly's words to me and I thought, God. When did I ever do that?

Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.

When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.