In art as in life the valid sacrifices are those that bring no income.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

To be adult is to be alone.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

The highest form of worship is to answer God's prayer.

There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.

I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see the world with different eyes.

By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.

There are many more secrets in the world that are waiting to be found. The question of how many secrets exist in our world is roughly equivalent to how many startups people should start.

In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe.

I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.

What we prepare for is what we shall get