What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

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.

If you stop learning, you forget what you ready know.

Hope is a passion for the possible.

Broadway is one of the hardest things I've ever done.

What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power, and how men do.

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.

The French team has given me so much and I want to help it. I told myself I did not have much time left in soccer, and I want to profit from it to the maximum.