Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.

To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.

No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

It is better to put on the brakes sooner, for some fine day you begin to understand — to pardon everything — and then where is the charm of life, if you cannot love or hate any more?

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

The principal task of friendship is to foster one's friends' illusions.

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Every dream is a butterfly flying in the garden we call life in search of flowers of success and happiness.

And the Light shineth in darkness

There's something about the Oscar that gives you sort of stripes where you feel you can dare to walk into a studio like Universal and say, "Hey guys, how about an idea of me playing the wolf man?"

I believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith.

A great day for me is not getting out of bed. I like to see how many snacks I can eat..and how many really bad TV shows I can watch

It’s almost always sadder to stay than to depart

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.