The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

To be adult is to be alone.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time.

Out of her favour, where I am in love.

My practical approach based on experience is to create a website for real Internet users, not for search engine spiders.

I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.

Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.

If the wrong person preaches a right teaching, even a right teaching can become wrong. If a right person expounds a wrong teaching, even a wrong teaching can become right.

We fell in love despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created.

I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.