"The bar exam's a mother. I mean, for me it was. I failed it the first two times, but I guess it's like losing your virginity, third time's the charm."

“Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour. Take that man I had aloft. He held on as if he were a precious thing, a treasure beyond diamonds of rubies. To you? No. To me? Not at all. To himself? Yes. But I do not accept his estimate. He sadly overrates himself. There is plenty more life demanding to be born. Had he fallen and dripped his brains upon the deck like honey from the comb, there would have been no loss to the world. The supply is too large.”

“Poverty is just a state of mind,”

Source : "HUD secretary Ben Carson: Poverty is largely 'a state of mind'" by Saba Hamedy, www.cnn.com. May 25, 2017.

“Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.”

“The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.”

“The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.”

“It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.”

“If God didn't want you to be a dreamer, He wouldn't go around handing out dreams! That's a clue!”

“I get paid to not laugh.”