What isn’t clear, isn’t French.

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.

Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out.

If you've got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.

If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.

A lion conquers more in one day than a sheep in a lifetime.

The best grammarian still can't write a verse.

Serving Leaders build teaching organizations to create excellence at every level.

only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.

I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling.

She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her.

The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.

Jennifer [Lawrence] and Josh [Hutcherson] seem very, very grounded. They're getting down to the film like they did last time.