One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

The object of art is to give life shape.

God brought every one of us into this new time to challenge us.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I'm a liberal to a degree, I want everybody to be free. But if you think that I'll let Barry Goldwater move in next door.

I am very seldom interested in applications. I am more interested in the elegance of a problem. Is it a good problem, an interesting problem?

Love is not a feeling, love is a response. Love is an action.

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.

A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.

Harvard created wonderful conditions for me as a writerbut the writing was done, almost entirely, when I got home.

God is not to be reached by the weak. Never be weak. You have infinite strength within you. How else will you conquer anything? How else will you come to God?