I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

One dangerous thing about comfort is this: it always comforts and it can really stop real purpose!

To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.

Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.

I don't think Americans look bad in spandex.

To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.

I think there are real possibilities of reaching out to many of the Trump voters, those who voted for Obama believing his rhetoric.

May your crust be crisp and your bread always rise!

War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.

Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself.

Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.