Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

It's every teacher's job to be rigorous about constantly being open to new ideas and innovation.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.

He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

It's best to make your peace with change, before it makes pieces of you.

Did you hear that! Yuki, the heartless Yuki! Heartless Yuki has begged me with tears to let him visit my shop!

You have to be able to use it [art] to effect change in the community. That's what gives the film and the music an impactful legacy.