It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.

The world loves the Saint, and Christ loves the sinner.

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself

It was always once springtime in my heart.

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is asacrament that should be taken kneeling.

Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things

My gods dwell in temples made with hands.

You are either a player or a spectator! Players influence the game while spectators watch them to do it. Such is life!

We are not for making shoes, so the shoemakers can have jobs, but so we can wear the shoes.

Listening ears are soothing for a heart that needs peace.

We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.

We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance.

When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering.

I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.

Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.

I never dreamed of being a flagbearer. Every athlete has a wish to get to the Olympic Games. I had that wish, but to carry the flag of your country is doubly thrilling.