The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger.
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. . . socialism is a new form of slavery.
everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure
O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.
As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his mathematical capacity, so may a man be born with certain faculties within him, faculties belonging to the soul, which he can develop by training and by discipline.
In Nigeria, if you say you're a singer, people say, 'So what? Everyone sings. ' In Germany, my voice stood out more.
I have no faith in my faith. My faith is in the faithful God.