Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Habit is the nursery of errors.

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

A library implies an act of faith.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

I like marriage. The idea.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

After I had the Caesarean, I was told I had really strong stomach muscles and so would heal very quickly. And I did. I was up walking about within three hours. Six days after having her, I was out shopping and shortly after that I made it to David Walliams' wedding.

I'd got to that age when I was out on a date with a guy and I would be thinking: Don't mention your age, don't mention that you want a child - because they would just run out the door.

I've never been on a fad diet.

My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along.

The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff.

New York City is the most important location in the world... it is the center for fashion, culture and finance.

All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.

Only in death will I relinquish my belts.

Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.

The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.

If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely.