Happy he who like Ulysses has made a great journey.

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)

The revolution cannot be funded. It's not the imagination of trusts and foundations that's going to bring real change.

A house should look after itself - as the weather heats up the house cools down, as the weather cools down the house heats up. It's simple stuff, you know? We've known how to do it for a long time.

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

Just watching an actor in front you really provokes you in such a sudden, unexpected way. You can't ask for anything more from someone you're working with than that.

There are certain qualities of light that blur the years.

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.

Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of what is called economic freedom.

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

I was the fastest typist in my school, and I had an obsession with spelling and memorizing.