It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being.

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

By God's grace and strength of my work, I've managed to build a respectable image that I use to serve both my continent and my country.