We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Imam Hussain's sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightousness.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor.

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Religion does not consist in making a noise, yet when the soul is filled with the Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heart-felt praise to God glorifies him.

The United Nations is useless...and also harmful. It is a land that flowers demagoguery with a bunch of newborn countries, devoid of any tradition.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.

Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.

If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.

Needs are the expression of life through us.

How many gifts and graces You have given me! How many favors You have fed me from your hand! I look for your love in all directions, then suddenly its blessing burns in me.

Sweet flowers alone can say what passion fears revealing.

Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.