Feelings, rationale and values are the top qualities that make a person exceedingly human.

A grandmother’s love is selfless all the way to the bones.

...the depth or humaneness of our love depends on the wideness of our souls.

Evil is something you need to fight until it ceases trying to control you.

...Unsettling emotions are capable of messing up the most beautiful minds in this world.

A man has a hard time feeling fulfilled when he lives a life that does not serve a purpose that is more than himself.

The basis of love that most people share is the intimacy they developed with their partners, the intensity of their attraction, or the similarity of their thought patterns.

What is the purpose of wealth if it cannot serve an ideal that enhances humanity and betters the lives of the people, even if that means those we have never met before in our lives?

A good relationship with our children is the ultimate comfort we have while dying.

We still need to give our best to life even if we do not understand the purpose of our existence on earth.

With true love, you can move mountains, make unusual sacrifices, live a life of deprivations and still be happy.

So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap!

The only human being I could tell everything was my sister Françoise. She and I were so diametrically different; put together we would have been a fantastic woman.

Healthcare is a tough situation.

The Garden of Eden presents the same story: If you want to make yourself gods, you'll find you're akin to the animals.

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.

It is straightforward — and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

You can't be grateful for something you feel entitled to.

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.