A cat can never be well-trained because they're too independent.

Life is too short to be lived badly.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

All big changes of the world come from words.

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

People strive to be ahead of time just to get a chance to trip it.

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

We opt to be seen as ‘right’ in the eyes of everyone else, rather than doing what’s ‘right’ in light of the situation.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.

I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.

Success is absolutely intoxicating. I've seen people behave in ways that seem very far from how they would behave normally.

When fleeing the scene of temptation, do not leave a forwarding address.

Genius is infinite painstaking.

Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself