The ring always believes that the finger lives for it.

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 flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

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.

I don’t pretend to know much about love, but that’s how great love comes to an end, not in the flames of passion, but in the silence of regret.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

I was 12 when I got a small part in a movie in Texas. And in my spare time, I play with my dogs and write music and go out with my friends.

I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.

The enemy of a tree is not only the enemy of humanity, but also the enemy of all the living beings!

I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that's what's fun.

Empathy zooms you in on an individual and, as a result, it's narrow, it's innumerate, it's racist, it's very biased.

The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself