The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

I think horror films always have to be as simple as possible.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

To be alive at all is to have scars.

It is most important that top management be quality-minded. In the absence of sincere manifestation of interest at the top, little will happen below.

So I'm taking a stand-and I hope others will-to really live what I believe and embrace who I am in Jesus Christ.

I had a lot of problems in my life. I've been a sickly kid, I had a strange life. They said I could have been blind, handicapped, asthmatic, there were all kind of different problems about me.