Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.

We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.'Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old.

I don't believe anyone who says love, love, love. It means self, self, self.

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim

Only the fear of God, can deliver us from evil.

The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen....

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

To a real child anything will serve as a toy.

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.

I think it's important never to look yourself up on Wikipedia. I think the temptation to correct any interesting factual errors would be too much.

All an actor has, I think, is their heart, really,...that's the place you go for your inspiration. If my heart wasn't filled with them, where would I get stuff? What would I have to express?

John Coltrane, he talks to god. He starts playing his solo, he might play for 14 minutes. For 14 minutes, it seems like he's talking to god, but he always takes a hold of the melody.

I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.