Don't have a fixed idea in your head (that you have to use this or that technique). Use everything you've learned until now.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
Whether your destination is heaven or hell, you always have to change planes in Dallas.
It's because we need to determine who in this country is poised, positioned to commit terrorist acts.
I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with the glory. So each one of us is creative.
It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.