Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

all they want to dois tie the poem to a chair with ropeand torture a confession out of it.They begin beating it with a hoseto find out what it really means.

Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.

Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I'd like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French are the two languages that I'd like to know.

A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.

Nowadays, as soon as a striker scores three goals, everyone starts asking him about it.

We've all made mistakes, they are not toxic and evil.

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny