A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Character is power.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.