All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

Make sure you are standing for something you believe in.

Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?

But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.

We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.

We live merely on the crust or rind of things.

Just as Freud couldn’t always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didn’t always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian.

It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.

You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.

Oh, how wretched should I be at this moment, if I had not made my peace with God.

The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.