Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.

Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.

Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.

One good turne asketh another.

I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win.

Treat your friend as a spectacle.

Cats know, comin' out of four, they better be standin' on it, else they'll be standin' in it.

There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.

In every difficult situation there is a door to opportunity for which optimism is the only key.