Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Necessity inspires the fatal thought.
First thoughts are not always the best.
If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.
We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.
In addition to temples, surely another holy place on earth ought to be our homes. The feelings of holiness in my home prepared me for feelings of holiness in the temple.
One of the amazing things about pop is that it's there to make people feel confident and empowered.
Every measurement of where you have more public confidence in creating jobs, American prosperity, controlling crime, health care, providing education, all of these standards, Bill Clinton has considerably higher marks. . . The sole exception is on protecting taxes, which is initially his attack.