The grandeur of a profession is...above all, uniting men: there is only one true luxury, that of human relationships.

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

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

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.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

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

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

If it were not for hopes the heart would break.

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.

I describe myself as an indoor cat, because I'm a computer guy and I always have been.

He shouldn't have resigned over that game. It was not a bad performance; in fact it was quite a good one for England. I would not have resigned under those circumstances.

I've always been athletic and a dancer, so I love doing fight choreography.

Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.

Lies and promises are necessary but not sufficient.

Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken