Fear is the white lipp'd sire Of subterfuge and treachery.

Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.

The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.

There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.

The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.

Something will be gathered from the tablets of the most faultless day for regrets.

Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

It’s either you are converting your time or not

Make yourself feel good. Be enthusiastic about your day.

The sun was fierce, the land seemed to glisten and drip with steam.

After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.

No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.

I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion.

I - and I bet all the panelists here - truly believe that movies really can change the world.

Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence.