The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that.

Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: " How beautiful that is!

...solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.

If you can keep as silent as a broken gong, then you have attained, when you know no anger.

Just wanting to be more of an example, but letting them know also that I made mistakes when I was a kid; and I'm not expecting you to be perfect.

People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

A king who’s innocent of the things of which he’s guilty?

I'm never sure why I do anything, to tell you the truth.

Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family.

Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.

Love is something eternal.