The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

While we read history we make history.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

Age is a matter of feeling...not of years.

The test of civilization is the estimate of women.

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

Age is a matter of feeling not of years.

The New Year begins in a snow storm of white vows

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

Happiness is speechless.

To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.

If you don't like public service, don't run for office.

I'll be playing a priest in 'Chavez Cage Of Glory,' which is a fight movie.

I still like my antique clothes.

Be kind to unkind people – they need it the most.

Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.

I've been really lucky to have had my fair share of relationships over the years and experiences to draw from. But I would say that I generally am not the one doing the heartbreaking.

And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned.

I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.

When more land is locked up by the federal government, real people suffer, and opportunities for future prosperity are reduced.

Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

Remember, the feeling you get from a good run is far better than the feeling you get from sitting around wishing you were running.

If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

I think my parents did want me to go to university just in case, but neither my mum or dad went to uni, so they couldn't talk.

You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it.

Our family is a circle of strength and love...Our family with ever birth and every union the circle grows our family is a circle of strength every crisis faced together makes the circle stronger.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

I will reach for the stars no matter how hard it seems and fly like a bird with the knowledge this journey brings.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character.

I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.