Man makes holy what he believes.

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.

Man makes holy what he believes.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism there can be no epic with artillery.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!

Work is the best thing to make us love life.

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

A man must be strong in that profession, he must have vigor of body and mind, yet I am all out of breath if I walk up a hill; I have not the heart to crush even a fly.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.

Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.