Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.

There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.

A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

You are a living, breathing magnet, and love is your magnetic power.

The fact that people are in positions does not justify the means that they are leaders. A leader can be blind and to know this, check his sense of vision.

My body wasn't made to look good in a string bikini. It was made to feed and nurture a child.

If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.

I'm incredibly focused. I think it's a blessing and a curse. I'm so driven that nothing else can stand in my way. For many years, I didn't have a personal life.

When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.