Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered.

A timid person is frightened before a danger a coward during the time and a courageous person afterwards.

The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)

It is easy to flatter it is harder to praise.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.

God is an unutterable sigh planted in the depths of the soul.

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.

Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

Ive obviously got one of those faces that people can forget.

We are not diminished when someone else is added upon.

I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.

Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!

Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.