I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason in the grass and tears in the sky, like Poussin.

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read.

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Floor time is valuable. Our leadership isn't going to bring something up that's going to take up floor time and not be successful.

I love when I teach my son a good lesson. But I love it even more when he teaches me.

From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is.

I was a spiritual kid.

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal Family. I am truly sorry for misleading people and misstating the facts.

India will be tomorrow what China is today.

My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.