A liar is always lavish of oaths. [Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.]

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

Wishing that I could stay right here in this moment of not doing, but simply being, forever.

My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

It's hard to be scared when there are 80 people around you.

The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.

Admitting your weaknesses does not diminish your strengths: it shows your courage.

If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.

I'll go on making films until I make one that pleases me from the first to the last frame. Then I'll quit.

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.