If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.