"Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire."

"I don't do drugs. I am drugs."

"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."

"Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it."

"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."

"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."

"War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford."

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought and could be."

"The Godless would deny and destroy human rights .... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned."

"Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else."

"In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity."

"Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature."