We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

(The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I am locked in the tower)

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

If typos are God's way of keeping a writer humble, plot holes certainly keeps one on their knees.

Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

We must remember that God is not occupied with a grand toy of worlds and suns and planets, of attractions and repulsions, of agglomerations and crystallizations, of forces and waves; that these but constitute a portion of his workshops and tools for the b

Any child that wants special attention is arrogant”.

If you try to sleep on the floor I'll just get down there with you. Which will make you feel guilty and then you'll end up in the bed anyway. So just give in now and save yourself -- and me -- a headache.

Andrei, did you like the opera?""Not particularly.""Andrei, do you see what you're missing?""I don't think I do, Kira. It's all rather silly. And useless.""Can't you enjoy things that are useless, merely because they are beautiful?""No. But I enjoyed it."