The more the heart is sated with joy the more it becomes insatiable.

The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.

Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

Ideas often last but a day; feelings, dreams almost forever.

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.

I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight of our weary hopes and eternal new beginnings.

One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.

Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere, as far as the mountain.

The speed at which progress rolls is not determined by the number of people who started pushing it, but by the number of people who are passionate to hold on doing so.

We're not in a fairytale story. This is not a movie. Scriptwriters don't write our fates. We do.

He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.

God enters through the wound.

The best tests of my Christian growth occur in the mainstream of life, not in the quietness of my study

It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.

Do we have any chlorine? It seems to be kind of explosive when mixed with other stuff." "Like what, your socks? No, we don't have chlorine. No swimming pool.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

I think that I am a pornographer, meaning that I make movies based on what excites me and what I would like to see.

Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.