Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal.

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer to mistrust my own intellectual capacities than his justice.

Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.

The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.

Everyone needs help from everyone.

To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?

We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

Nature and wisdom always say the same.

I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

If I'm going to be 'too' anything, 'too cute' is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies?