Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.

I love films that are made with almost no budget.

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death.

Life--a lifelong death sentence.

Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Theater in Israel is not more dangerous than walking in the street.

If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.

In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.