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

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…

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

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…

in a worldfull oftemporary thingsyou area perpetual feeling.

Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target.

A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.

A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.

One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?

I'm willing to be representative. I'm just an actor. I'm just playing a role, so even if it is a person I do not like, I would do that.

It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.

In the dream world of Matisse and the gritty reality of American frontier, the diversity of women in our society offers the chance for greater exploration and even greater inspiration.