Life is full of surprises, so you may as well get used to it.

Never do the eyes of the devil shine as much as when he hears the words: liberty, equality, fraternity.

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.

Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever.

One Almighty is more than all mighties

There's part of me that's grateful for the delusion, because it takes a very hard shell to get started as an actor, and I don't have a very hard shell.