"Belgium is modernizing itself and it gives me joy."

“There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed librarians.”

“I'm a grandfather now.”

“Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.”

“And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.”

“A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its monuments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual references to the sacrifices and glories of the past.”

Source : 1871 Address at Framingham, Massachusetts, 31 Aug. Collected in Poems and Essays (1874).

“What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.”

“Age to women is like Kryptonite to Superman.”

“Maybe it's every kid's dream to go into a pod and come out looking like Captain America. And you don't even have to exercise or lift weights! It's great!”