"Things are always darkest just before they go pitch black."

"Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all."

"In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed."

"The unexamined life is not worth living to a human."

"You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try."

"We never understand what we're praying; and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom."

"Power is the great aphrodisiac."

"Old age is always fifteen years older than I am."

"If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity."

"And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever."

"God has always been hard on the poor."

"The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin."