"Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay."

“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.”

Source : Assorted Prose (1965) "Confessions of a Wild Bore"

“No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.”

“It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.”

“More Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians than had died before in all the persecutions.”

Source : Ramsay MacMullen (1999). “Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries”, p.14, Yale University Press

“Know all and you will pardon all.”

“The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.”

Source : "What Is Money?". "Frédéric Bastiat, Essays on Political Economy", translated by David A. Wells, bastiat.org. 1877.

“About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.”

“Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.”