The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.