God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

Every single phenomenon in the world, has a physical explanation underneath it. Finding the explanation depends on how far you are willing to go.

the prudent business mind must not only think of competing with the prevailing giants in the market but must also not be oblivious of the latent deft of the masses who are yet to dare

They say God never gives us more than we can handle, but sometimes I think God has overestimated what I can take.

I think one day I'd like to win an Oscar.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.

A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too.

We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.

I can see that one can never pay back Gilsa for the fear that she will give again.