The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

Do you believe in God, doctor?"No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.

We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them.

But memory is less disposed to compromise

It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.

Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him.

You have to loss something to gain something.

To learn to love, one must first learn to see.

Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.

I have to welcome the pain like I welcome the joy.

It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder.

Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.

If you respect it in others, you respect it in yourself.

Patrick Henry didn't say, "Give me safety, or give me death."

Every single person you meet, look at them like a golden million dollar baby.

My goal, my aim is to be a superstar, but not in a cheesy way. I want to go to America and do what they do. But better!