“Art is the daughter of freedom.”

Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants’ wives must contest together.

The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear.

Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Never the grave gives back what it has won!

Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.

O God, how lovely still is life!

To the fool-king belongs the world.

If you want to study yourself, look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people, look into your own heart.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.

I am called The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my dominion never sets.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

There is a nobility in the world of manners.

Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

I’ve had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different.

They paint me as a villain, I just autograph the artwork.

The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.

The sport is called artistic gymnastics. So you do have to be a little bit of an actress.

The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility.

The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.