Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy.

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.

We fear that we are ugly, that we cannot succeed and we are afraid of something

Chaos was the law of nature

Don’t take the holiness of God lightly, for it is the very essence of His character.

I would rather have someone say they hate me and mean it, than have someone say they love me and not.

You will see by this that no man should be judged by another here in this life, for the good or evil he has done. Deeds may be properly judged, whether they are good or bad, but not men.

Telling the truth has always come naturally to me. And I realize, that people like me are the reason the world hates the truth.

As soon as a person starts thinking, 'I want to be a better person,' that is the start of Yoga.

I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

I was being honest - I have nothing to hide. All I do, all the time, with everybody, is tell them what I am thinking, what I am feeling.

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair