In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old.

Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.

We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.'Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

I don't believe anyone who says love, love, love. It means self, self, self.

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim

Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.

Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.

And you know what it is? San Francisco a golden handcuff with the key thrown away.

For me, a muse is someone who looks glamorous but is quite passive, whereas I was very hard-working. I worked from 9am to sometimes 9pm, or even 2am. I certainly wasn't passive

Israel must be wiped off the map.

Friends are forever Boys are whatever.

While you see a chance take it, find romance, fake it, because it's all on you.

When the enemy is at ease, be able to weary him; when well fed, to starve him; when at rest, to make him move. Appear at places to which he must hasten; move swiftly where he does not expect you.

I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.