Apparently the average man sees woman alternatelyas an inferior being and as an angel.

Everybody has that little side of them they never really get to get out.

A man can be a parent without knowing it: a woman cannot.

I love Mary Poppins - when I was little I was obsessed with it.

Time throws you out of its dimensionless planar like a boomerang. It unites with you again in death.

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.

Yes, well, let me tell you that if nobody had ever learned to quote, very few people would be in love with La Rochefoucauld. I bet you I don't know ten souls who read him without a middleman.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

It's food too fine for angels, yet come, take and eat thy fill!

Many people are alienated by faceless bureaucracy and what they see as an erosion of participatory democracy. Consequently, there has been a revival of interest in charitable service.

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.