Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

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.

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.

The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields a clear meaning.

I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.

The kick [of comedy] is to think quickly. It's a great kick.

One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine.

Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live than a worm squirming on the pavement after a hard summer rain.

Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.