[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.

The prayer of faith is the only kind that is real prayer, and it is trust in God with full acknowledgment of God's power and love.

I seem to be able to get along with anybody when I work because I really enjoy being there.

the less you had, the more careful you had to be about everything you did have.

I regret that the presentation I made at the UN turned out to be wrong. It was wrong on the stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, but pretty much right on intentions and capabilities.

I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.

The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore.

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

Everything I've done and everything I've gained in my life has been with my music.