The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

It is a fact that you have a calling, but you must also know when the time comes for its fulfillment

I'm killing time and it's dying hard.

If you do the best and the most you can today, don't worry about tomorrow.

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.

Can I find a poetic that can be subversive enough to grab people in some subliminal way, to where they feel that they are altered and have had an experience that belonged to them?

I've never made a plan for my life. I have just taken whatever opportunities have come and been very genuine with them.

...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.

Life figures itself to me as a festal or funereal procession.

I want to be an actor who always tries the best regardless of roles.