The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

... that destiny has to make many turnings before arriving anywhere, destiny alone knows what it has cost ...

We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep…

what is right and what is wrong are simply different ways of understanding our relationships with the others, not that which we have with ourselves

Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin and vice are so favoured by fortune...

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn…

If one has never known freedom, it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one's cell.

Yul Brynner's performance in "The King and I," . . . can no longer be regarded as a feat of acting or even endurance. After 30-odd . . . Mr Brynner is, quite simply, The King.

When you're a professional you gotta do it [your job] when you don't feel like doing it.

I don't think there's a hobby that I haven't tried on.

The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power.

In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.

When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.

But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

I'm a Leo. Leos don't believe in this astrology stuff.