Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

That's it. Love makes us all strong.

Even one voice in a wilderness of ignorance is a voice that is heard by someone.

My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.

God, Bones, you must have argued yourself blue in the face.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.

I used to buy everything at garage sales. It was hard to give up! I’d be like, ‘But this crazy sweater is amazing, and it only cost 25 cents!’

Sometimes you just get the feeling that here it is 11o'clock in the morning and you're not in school.

All human stories are interesting. You don't put a kid in a show because you need a device. They have a story, too.

I am just at tragedy right now.