It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

Do you believe in God, doctor?"No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.

We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them.

But memory is less disposed to compromise

Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him.

Because one look into his eyes, and she was drowning in what existed there and didn’t want to surface.

Like all young people, you are quite sure that you alone feel and think, you alone recognize danger, you alone are the only one clever enough to realise...

No ends, simply means.

Having knowledge of the Bible is essential to a rich and meaningful life.

Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.

There's something very cool as an actor when you have an opportunity to play somebody who's real, whether they're still alive or not, but who has lived a life.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

We don't have to wait for something nice to happen to us, we can be aggressive and do something nice for ourselves.

It's Bernoulli not Marconi that flies the airplane.