"Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes."

"There is a big difference between ideas and beliefs. Ideas live above your nose. Beliefs make it all the way to your toes."

"One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious."

"It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion."

"We are who people think we are."

"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority."

"Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed."

"Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law"

"Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived."

"Few take up the burden of their own victory: most give up their dreams when they become impossible."

"Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made."

"All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it."