The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.
The world is a Bridge, pass over it, but build no houses upon it. He who hopes for a day, may hope for eternity; but the World endures but an hour. Spend it in prayer for the rest is unseen.
A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.
Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.
Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason is that claims to divinity are customary.
It is best for ordinary men to have only one wife !
Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.
I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.
The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.
A year and a half after the end of the war and the German occupation, Paris was muted and looked bruised and forlorn. Everywhere I went, I sensed the tracks of the wolf that had tried to devour the city. But Paris proved inedible, as it had been ever since its tribal beginnings on an island in the Seine, the Ile de la Cité.