Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

The object of art is to give life shape.

This hand shall never more come near thee with such friendship

I kiss her for way too long at the door, and not for the first time, I wish that I could stay with her, to help chase those dark clouds away.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Attitudes are more important than intelligence.

Love what you are doing because that’s the only way you’ll ever be really good at it.

The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.

It's a growing trend. Viewers are our customers, but so are advertisers. And advertisers want different ways to reach our viewers.

Hell must be a place where you are only allowed to read what you agree with.

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

There are a lot of farmers and ranchers who are struggling. I get on my knees every day. If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.