Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

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.

The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing.

We are who we are, and when you accept people instead of trying to change them to fit your needs, your relationships can fully blossom.

It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman.

Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)

In Russia, they say I'm a Pole, in Poland they call me Russian.

I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.

We don't pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving.

And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.

I wanted to make room for antiheroes.