Do not enter into a learned discussion with your guests unless you are assured of their ability, so as not to put them to shame.

Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who is mean and irascible.

Do not be ungrateful to animals.

The power of a young woman is in her beauty and charm. The power of a woman in her later years is her social position and her ability to convince.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.

I'm very happy to come back. I've always had success here and the public is fantastic. I love you, Montreal.

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time

The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.

Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane.

Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?