I think I said that every generation had its weaklings--that that was one of the penalties of greatness--but that their failings were seldom remembered by posterity.

How well you express it! That is exactly the curse of a politician's life. He has to bow to the country's feeling, however dangerous and foolhardy he knows it to be.

Nature repeats herself more than one would imagine. The sea has infinitely more variety.

You are, madame, so perfectly armoured, so completely sure of yourself.''Now I wonder, if I am to take that as a compliment?''It is, perhaps, a warning--not to treat life with arrogance.

...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.''What is that?'' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.

Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddle-headed, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be disregarded for all that.

When you die you say "Game Over" and that's all the game is over. You as an actor you die with this character stuff, but a new character is build.

There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

Why can't we see everyone and everything as God, as a part of the Divine? It is because we don’t see ourselves this way.

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.

In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average.

I, Geric-Sinath of Gerhard, declare that you're beautiful and you're perfect and I'll slay any man who tries to take you from my side. Goose girl, may I kiss you?

I think painting is in fact a form of rehearsal expressed through different mediums.