In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

Real education is never acquisition of knowledge but training of character.

The Egyptian society needs to include its women if it wants to have economic prosperity.

Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

This is a Christian nation.

I feel that one of the greatest gifts you can give someone is the truth, but sometimes my words will get stuck on the way out.

Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.

You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.

Dandelions don't tell no lies.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.