The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.

"Presents," I often say, endear Absents."

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

When thou attended gloriously from heaven, Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send Thy summoning archangels to proclaim Thy dread tribunal.

I know exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist True progress is not found in breaking away from the old ways, but in abiding in the teaching of Christ and His Spirit in the Church. There is an apparent contradiction here, for how can we abide, and yet advance? It is a paradox, like much else in scripture; but Christian experience proves it true. Those make the best progress in religion who hold fast by the faith once for all delivered to the saints, and not those who drift away from their moorings, rudderless upon a sea of doubt.

Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.