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“I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.”
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“As you spend time in God's Word and understand his love, the Holy Spirit will create new desires within you to love and serve others like never before.”
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“Every country has the government it deserves.”
Source : Lettres et Opuscules Inedits vol. 1, no. 53 (1851) (letter of 15 Aug. 1811)
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“We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also worth giving. And we also discovered that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.”
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“Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.”
Source : Giacomo Leopardi (2013). “Zibaldone”, p.288, Macmillan
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“I love the fall. I love it because of the smells that you speak of; and also because things are dying, things that you don't have to take care of anymore, and the grass stops growing.”
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“I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.”
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“The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.”