Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.

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.

Your personal growth is the only thing that matters. You own and write your story no one else does. Believe in your unique steps up the mountain.

Feeling entitled is the opposite of feeling grateful. Gratitude opens the heart, entitlement closes it.

Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.

Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.

Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.

When people are in severe pain, there's an expression, you're a "pain person," and what that means is that nothing else matters.

He [ Campbell Scott ] is also a really funny guy which not a lot of people know.

Geography does not define you - love does.

No one gains from fair employment law and legislation if there is no employment to be had.

Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.