Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.

Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

If you want a happy Christ-centered marriage, you must be centered in Christ!

You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway.

Love comes into being through useful service to others.

You're fighting this war in the worst way possible." "I don't know how to fight it, Dad.""You should ask for help, " he said."I don't know how to do that, either.

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell. They are being tested out.

Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.

The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.

The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem.

I have faith that a script is going to hit me like a ton of bricks, and when that happens, it's undeniable that I should choose the role.