True values are not taught and declared, they evolve through the acts and interaction of the living, they are understood at a near tacit level by those who live them.

Seeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes.

Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de tous les vices.

You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.

A leader has a great duty. You have to perform beyond the expectation of the people.

Everything in this world exists to wear you down.

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

The story of Hosea and Gomer is the second most powerful picture of God's love in the Bible. Other than Christ's death, there is no greater picture of love.

To say whatever nonsense comes into your head without any repercussions has got to be a bigger high than heckling a movie screen in a darkened theater.

Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.

I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.

We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.