Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

The memories: they are the reality.

Don't complain that your life is boring. It is because you never did anything exciting.

I wish I was a better athlete. That would have been a little cooler, being a great boxer and walking into a room and going: "I can knock everybody out!" That's a good feeling.

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Hillary Clinton doesn't like Putin because Putin has outsmarted her at every step of the way.

My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.

The honester the man, the worse luck.

Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.

To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.

Certainly in the second film [Maigret's Dead Man], which is quite a more unpleasant and darker story, it's quite different in tone and feel.