An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z....

If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible.

Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can loveand who shall be continually reborn, a human being.

A saint is a sinner who loves; it's that simple!

You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes.

At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.

Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.

I love film and I love the film business. And I don't think there's any better way, with my personality, than being a producer which is a little bit of a control freak.

I recommend it to all people: Get down on the floor and look at the world from where the child looks at it.

Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.