There are absolute atheists ... Absolute atheism is in no way a mere absence of belief in God. It is rather a refusal of God, a fight against God, a challenge to God.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth

Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

Some truths are seen better through tears.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.

The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

I have got good films, and I am thankful to Aditya Chopra. He put a lot of faith in me.

What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses.

I am convinced that China needs to be a strong trading partner with the United States long term.

If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.

I find it's better to focus on what's in front of you and to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.

Nobody is really happy with what's on their head. People with straight hair want curly, people with curly want straight, and bald people want everyone to be blind.

Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.