The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

War is a horribly fascinating thing.

My left foot is the wisdom from yesterday, my right foot is the vision of tomorrow and my mind is focused on the work of today and this is how I stand a winner.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five languages!

A lot of things look cooler in slow motion. Eating isn't one of them.

Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe.

The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and their superior degree of intellectuality.

The mother-in-law had an accident at work. A hot rivet dropped down her drawers and she fell off the oil rig.

Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.

[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.