Fact: More people are killed each year by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.
But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!
Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.
The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!
We're travelling through space and time, we're dealing with gods and monsters, but at the heart of the film, from my perspective, is a family - a father, two sons, two brothers, a mother and the fractious, intimate interaction that they have.
Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear
Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.
Intergrity is not only teh way one thinks but even moer the way one acts.