Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

Every country has the government it deserves.

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free.

Why I let you talk me into these things, I’ll never understand. One day you’re going to get me into some serious trouble, " Rowan said, shaking his head.

When we're not following God's will, our sacrifices aren't acceptable to Him. What God wants most is for us to be broken before Him, walk with Him, know Him, and obey Him.

What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored?

An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.

The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.

I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.

I would like to do away with all kind of - all weapons. A dream - totally. Including the bow an arrow.

We're supposed to be civilized. We're supposed to go to work every day. We're supposed to be nice to our friends and send Christmas cards to our parents.

The one time of year when everyone wears a mask... not just me.