A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.

Evangelicals now stand among those who are on easiest terms with the world, for they have lost their capacity for dissent.

All law must be subjective

Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.

Progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all.

I'm a big believer of "when there is a will there is a way" but from the studio's perspective I think it just seems like a bigger leap than you can get a sort of bureaucratic move to make.

Authentic femininity is a combination of class, tenderness and virtue. When a woman possesses these traits, a man will naturally want to be more of a gentleman around her.

And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you who you are. And that's a lovely place to get to.

Since I was a kid I just wanted to be in Nashville.

The important thing for me was that the World Cup should travel round the world.