Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

The object of art is to give life shape.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

There is a certain strength in being alone.

Language is accurate: you run for your life. If you are dying, leave. If you are suffering, move. There is no other law, only movement.

I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.

I have to look out for the shareholder’s interests, and I’m the largest shareholder.

What's best about those seaside towns is that they are like time warps, and that's why people go there.

I think that old school style of 'I'm your parent and I'm greater than you' doesn't work. What I establish with my children is a partnership.

Invention is the natural outcome of creative thinking.

Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit.