The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.

The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.

I seek to humble myself, so I won't attract the harsh experiences that will.

I believe a lot in the subject of the power our own bodies have as marginalized beings to be able to change the sense of things.

In organizations (or even in a society) where culture is weak, you need an abundance of heavy, precise rules and processes.

I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.

If he's chasing the full restoration of his legacy, he's chasing something that he really can't get.

Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Once a child gets into your heart, there’s no right or wrong about it.

I guess when I was a kid I wasn't the type of person playing a lot of pranks. I was the type of person upon whom pranks were pulled.

[Pope Francis] did something that both his two predecessors had failed to do - John Paul II and Benedict. Francis met with the Russian patriarch of the Orthodox Church.

You should not begin to pray for all you want until you realize that in God you have all you need.