Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

In valor there is hope.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

Prayer cannot be a substitution for action.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

If taxpayers want to keep more of the money they earn, they must also work to become less dependent on a government check. We look to government too often and to ourselves not enough.

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show

Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.

I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

Trust is an absurd phenomenon, logically absurd. That's why logic always says love is blind, although love has its own eyes, far more deep-going...still, to logic it is blind.

I haven't had time to think about a relationship! I literally have not had a boyfriend in almost five years. I've never even hooked up with anybody I've worked on a movie with.

Christianity is the only faith whose founder died for His followers in order to enable them to escape the consequences of their sins.