It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

One of the most beautiful things in the world I've ever seen or heard is people laughing, even when there seems to be so little reason for them to laugh.

The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.

The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.

I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.