Every ideal comes from us as do all the amenities of life, in order to make our existence as simple reproducers, for which divine Providence solely intended us, less monotonous and less hard.

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

The courage to try again is a daring spirit.

The eyes believe themselves the ears believe other people.

If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.

I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.

Nobody sees people as people. It's all how they relate to my little group.

My entire theology can be condensed into four words, 'JESUS DIED FOR ME'.

I think most important, you need to have the compassion and caring for helping to protect vulnerable people.

It's your Birthday Just do what You do best Chill out!!

Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is.

If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947.