No one asks public men to be strictly moral, but they must seem to be well-behaved.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

Do not stand directly in front of a cannon...how true that is.

Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers.

Amid life's quests, there seems but worthy one: to do men good.

Movies dealing with social subjects in France become very paternalist. They want to teach lessons. They don't show poorness like a normal situation.

My strengths—which are really quite modest—are limited to me, but with my weaknesses the possibilities are boundless.

Those who tell you it's tough at the top have never been at the bottom.

Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles.

I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.