The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.

Joy brings smiles on our faces, it brings power, peace and sound mind.

Only an honorable victory is a true victory.

This is a way to kill a wife with kindness, And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour.He that knows better how to tame a shrew, Now let him speak. 'Tis charity to show.

I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.

This day last year Livingstone died-a Scotsman and a Christian, loving God and his neighbour in the heart of Africa. Go thou and do likewise!

Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.

In intercessory prayer, one seldom ends where one began.

I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.

There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.

Dear me! I must be turning into a god.