We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

I'm so scared of dying without ever being really seen.

To what do I attribute our decline? It's far easier to be shocking than charming.

Even people who've never seen a miracle can believe in miracles.

The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it.

And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.

The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.

I play because I have fun, if I don't have fun on the court, there is something wrong. I am just a 19 year old boy that likes to do what he likes, nothing else.

If we call the young ones, say 10 to 30 years old, 'siblings,' we can see they tend to be naturally ecological. They regard whales and owls as siblings too. That's a great advance.