"Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’"

-Jesus Christ ( The Bible, ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭25‬:‭37‬-‭40‬ ‭NIV‬‬ )

"There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs."

-Thomas Sowell ( A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell )

"The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best."

-Thomas Sowell ( Knowledge And Decisions by Thomas Sowell )

"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."

-C.S. Lewis

"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that."

-John Stuart Mill ( On Liberty by John Stuart Mill )

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

-Booker T. Washington

"Liberty and peace are living things. In each generation - if they are to be maintained -they must be guarded and vitalized anew."

-Franklin D. Roosevelt ( Address on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, 1936 )

"Don't let potential be written on your tombstone"

-Anonymous

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month."

-Theodore Roosevelt

"Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent."

-Dennis Prager

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."

-J.K. Rowling ( Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling )

"Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips."

-Viktor Emil Frankl

"Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are."

-Rudyard Kipling

"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."

-Abraham Lincoln

"Sheep spend their life worried about the wolf, only to be eaten by the shepherd."

-Anonymous

"I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music."

-Johann Sebastian Bach

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

-Mahatma Gandhi

"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him."

-Booker T. Washington

"Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly—and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence."

-Thomas Sowell

"More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of."

-The Lord Tennyson ( Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' )

"There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself."

-Leo Tolstoy ( from “Three Methods Of Reform” in Pamphlets: Translated from the Russian (1900) )

"I have never had much patience with…[those] always ready to explain why one cannot succeed. I have always had high regard for the man who could tell me how to succeed."

-Booker T. Washington

"You can't make old friends."

-Kenny Rogers ( From the song )

"When men stop believing in God they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything."

-G.K. Chesterton

"Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."

-Andrew Fletcher

"Through discipline comes freedom."

-Aristotle

"A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes."

-Anonymous ( Often attributed to Mark Twain or Winston Churchill )

"Always stand on principle even if you stand alone."

-John Adams

"Anarchism is not a location it's a relationship. It just means one person is not in a position to impose their authority on another so anarchism is the basis of all peaceful relationships."

-Michael Malice

"for the deed's sake have I done the deed, In uttermost obedience to the King."

-The Lord Tennyson ( from Idylls of the King )

"It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think."

-Thomas Sowell

"Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days."

-Thomas Sowell ( Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays (ed. Hoover Inst Press, 1993) )

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

-Harry S. Truman

"Human beings need bitter with the sweet."

-Darby O’Gill ( From the movie ‘Darby O’Gill and the little people’ )

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."

-Viktor Emil Frankl

"The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups."

-Henry Hazlitt ( from the Book 'Economics in One Lesson' )

"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."

-Voltaire

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."

-John F. Kennedy

"Boy, I love meeting people’s moms. It’s like reading an instruction manual as to why they’re nuts."

-Ted Lasso ( From season 2 of the TV show ‘Ted Lasso’ )

"Your boos mean nothing, I’ve seen what makes you cheer!"

-Rick Sanchez ( From Rick and Morty season 4, episode 3 “One Crew Over the Crewcoo’s Morty )

"A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies."

-Anonymous ( Proverbs 31:10 )

"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."

-John Stuart Mill

"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities."

-Voltaire

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

-Theodore Roosevelt

"Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars."

-Evel Knievel

"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love."

-Marcus Aurelius ( From the book Meditations )

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

-Thomas Edison

"You can fail many times, but you aren’t a failure until you begin to blame somebody else."

-John Burroughs ( Naturalist (1837-1921) )

"What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams."

-Werner Herzog

"Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own."

-Milton Friedman

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."

-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."

-Jim Elliott

"In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on."

-Robert Frost

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."

-Sun Tzu ( from The Art of War by Sun Tzu )

"Kell’ onni on, se onnen kätkeköön. (Don't brag about your happiness)"

-Anonymous ( Finnish Proverb )

"Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"This should not be viewed as a setback; it should be viewed as the next step in the process."

-Graeme Parker

"Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work."

-Dr. John Trainer

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

-John F. Kennedy

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

-Aldous Huxley ( Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays )

"Il y a dans le coeur de l' homme un vide en forme de Dieu que rien de ce qui a été créé ne peux remplir mais seulement le créateur qui s'est fait connaître par Jésus. (There is a God shaped hole in the heart of man that can only be filled by the creator who made himself known through Jesus)"

-Blaise Pascal ( Pensées )

"Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad Company."

-Anonymous ( From 'Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation', a school book of George Washington )

"If you don’t believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children."

-Thomas Sowell ( From Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays )

"Intent does not matter. Only Consequences."

-Kratos ( From the game 'God of War : Ragnarok' )

"I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way."

-Voltaire

"... to say that the CIA and the KGB engage in similar practices is the equivalent of saying that the man who pushes an old lady into the path of a hurtling bus is not to be distinguished from the man who pushes an old lady out of the path of a hurtling bus: on the grounds that, after all, in both cases someone is pushing old ladies around."

-William F. Buckley, Jr.

"Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true."

-John Kenneth Galbraith ( From A Life in Our Times: Memoirs )

"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."

-G.K. Chesterton

"When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile."

-Peter Kreeft

"If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself."

-James Madison

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."

-Benjamin Disraeli

"We must never stop failing because the minute we do we've failed!"

-Edgin Darvis ( From the movie 'Dungeons and Dragons : Honor Among Thieves' )

"Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions."

-Richard L. Evans

"No man is poor who has a Godly mother."

-Abraham Lincoln

"Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket."

-Eric Hoffer ( The Temper of Our Time )

"We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish."

-F. A. Hayek

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

-Mark Twain

"Treat what you don’t have as nonexistent. Look at what you have, the things you value most, and think of how much you’d crave them if you didn’t have them. But be careful. Don’t feel such satisfaction that you start to overvalue them —that it would upset you to lose them."

-Marcus Aurelius

"If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave."

-Fulton J. Sheen

"Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda."

-Peter Kreeft

"naturam expelles furca, tamen usque recurret, (you may drive out nature with a pitchfork, but she will always return)."

-Horace ( From Epistles I )

"Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone."

-C.S. Lewis ( From the book 'Mere Christianity' )

"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."

-Mark Twain

"Do what you will, gentlemen; you cannot give money to some without taking it away from others. If you absolutely insist on draining the taxpayer dry, well and good; but at least do not treat him like a fool. Do not tell him: “I am taking this money from you to repay you for what I have already taken from you.”"

-Frédéric Bastiat ( from 'Economic Sophisms' )

"Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed."

-Jesus Christ ( John 8:35-36 )

"[K]nowledge is open-ended in the sense that no matter how much we know, this is as nothing compared with what we know that we do not know."

-Israel Kirzner ( from page 198 of Israel Kirzner’s 1984 paper “The Open-Endedness of Knowledge” )

"Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments. What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them."

-Clarence Thomas ( From Supreme Court Opinion for No. 20–1199 )

"If God does not exist then everything is permitted."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky ( Central premise of the book 'The Brothers Karamazov'. Often attributed to Dostoevsky, may not have been said directly. )

"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

-Isaac Newton ( From his memoirs )

"Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself."

-George Bernard Shaw ( From Don Juan in Hell: From Man and Superman )

"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

-Harvey Dent ( from the movie 'The Dark Knight' )

"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"

-Jesus Christ ( The Bible, Mark 8:36 )

"Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. After all Number One, we're only mortal."

-Jean-Luc Picard ( From the movie Star Trek : Generations )

"With great power comes great responsibility."

-Uncle Ben ( From Spiderman )

"We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line."

-Joe Biden

"Heroes get remembered, but legends never die."

-Babe Ruth ( from the movie 'The Sandlot' )

"Luck often enough, will save a man, if his courage hold."

-Buliwyf ( From the movie ‘The 13th Warrior’ )

"If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."

-Desmond Tutu ( Also attributed to Moshe Dayan )

"Intelligence is not a privilege, it's a gift. And you use it for the good of mankind."

-Otto Octavius ( From the movie Spiderman 2 )

"A genius! For the last 37 years I've practiced 14 hours a day and now they call me a genius!"

-Pablo Sarasate ( Violinist (1844-1908) )