Il n'est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

The thing I fear most is fear.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.

GPS is expensive because it is a very slow communication channel - you need to communicate with three or four satellites for an extended duration at 50 bits per second.

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

Have you ever been hated, or discriminated against I have, I’ve been protested and demonstrated against.

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.

There's one form of bigotry that is still acceptable in America - that's the bigotry against the successful.

Love is a special way of being alive.