In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.
Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.
Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.
It takes some intelligence and insight to figure out you're gay and then a tremendous amount of balls to live it and live it proudly.
I take the juice of two bottles of whisky.
They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at. If you take a photograph, you've been responsive to something, and you looked hard at it. Hard for a thousandth of a second, hard for ten minutes. But hard, nonetheless. And it's the quality of that bite that teaches you how connected you were to that thing, and where you stood in relation to it, then and now.