It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

The Holy One is Holy Father.

When You’re Accustomed to Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression

Explanations are for cowards.

Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like a comic book but when you start making it, for some reason the film gets very serious.

Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job.

The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.

Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters.