Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of; it's energy.

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

In documentary films, being able to be a storytelling and embrace film as an art form - while being very clearly connected in trying to help make the world a better place - is really important to me.

Though science has given us many marvels, it has also spoiled many of our pleasant dreams.

Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!

If a child is not listening, don't despair. Time and truth are on your side. At the right moment, your words will return as if from heaven itself. Your testimony will never leave your children.

My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.

There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.