Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

You can stop a raging forest fire, a herd of stampeding buffalo or even a runaway freight train, but you can’t stop a good man".

Worry not that your child listens to you

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt, ' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

It was almost like I was in the army.

You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place.

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

It was scary, and I knew what it was like to be an unemployed actress again.

Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.

Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything.

Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque Qui fasse a l'univers connaitre un vrai monqrque.]