Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

Happiness thinks only of itself.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —

I couldn't reach him from here even if I tried.

What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.

When leaders lead in ways that people's brains can follow, good results follow as well.

If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.

Manuel will show you to your rooms - if you're lucky.

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

Tout ce qui est anachronique est obsce' ne. Everything anachronistic is obscene.

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?