Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

The only things you learn are the things you tame

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?

The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.

And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.

I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.

We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.

I've been acting for many years now, and I find there's nothing I enjoy more than making films with my friends and people I like, who also are the funniest people around.

When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.

Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.

The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.