Be good. It'll be a new experience.

You don't talk much, do you, angel-face? I like that in a woman.

And if her heart was breaking with every step she took, at least he would never know.

I've been a perfect lady my entire life, and somebody just tried to shoot me, anyway. Grandmother was wrong. Goodness is not its own reward.

Because friendship is about laughing when the other person is joking to make you feel better. Even if you don’t find her joke all that funny.

Rules of science.” Alessandro shrugged his elegant shoulders. “And what are those? We don’t even know how this works.” He pointed to his head.

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored. Better to die than to live in slavery.

The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.

In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

We are only intelligent by our own measures

People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves. They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.

When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know.