A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.

Every sacred mission, every hunt for hidden relics, every pilgrimage from one end of the earth to the other … I was looking for you.

The public! why the public's nothing better than a great baby.

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

Enough talk," Peter said, and his eyes flashed. "It's time to turn you three into killers.

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.

I don't even watch Fox News usually in the prime time hours because I'm home with my kids and that's more important to me.

Symbolic racism is hurtful and it is especially hurtful to Black children who get called Black Pete in school and grow up with the sense that they are inferior to white kids.

When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.