It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I havenot had time to remake the world.

The State, which had so often called for a reform of the Church, was now part of the evils, for the bishops were appointed by the King.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war