When I was five I had violin lessons.
Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
When you believe in something, stand up for it, even if everyone is sitting.
Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.
My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life.
A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.