Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity never of the correctness of a belief.

To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.

No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

It is better to put on the brakes sooner, for some fine day you begin to understand — to pardon everything — and then where is the charm of life, if you cannot love or hate any more?

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

The principal task of friendship is to foster one's friends' illusions.

Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.

At any specific stage of your life, you are certain about few things which when passes over the time to be something uncertain and vice versa.

What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.

The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.

Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind.

For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?

It's all in your head -- you just have no idea how big your head is.

The funniest things are the forbidden.

My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.

In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.

To understand Hitler's power as a speaker, we must consider that he was not just the bellowing tavern demagogue we always picture, but in fact constructed his speeches very deliberately.