I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

A good book is an event in my life.

Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?

After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.

Julien felt himself to be strong and resolute like a man who sees clearly into his own heart.

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction, " said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

Daily mediate on the Holy Scriptures.

You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after.

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.

I'll be back so soon you won't have time to miss me. Look after my heart I've left it with you

Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.