Thomas Aquinas

"The things that we love tell us what we are."

"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."

"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."

"Silence is the best response to a fool."

"Human happiness depends upon knowing the purpose of human life."

"Knowledge is power."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour."

"Law is an ordinance of reason for the common good."

"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."

"Courage is the first of human virtues because upon it all others depend."

"Art imitates nature."

"It is impossible for a man to love God whom he hates his brother."

"The contemplation of truth for its own sake is the ultimate end of human life."

"Hope is the theological virtue by which we trust in divine promises."

"Wonder is the desire for knowledge."

"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."

"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."

"The greatest deceptions are self-deceptions."

"Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions."

"Peace is the tranquility of order."

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

"An unjust law is not a law."

"The natural law is unchangeable and eternal."

"Evil is the absence of good."

"God is not a God of the dead, but of the living."

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

"Accidents do not happen in this world, there are only encounters of fate."