If I had to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: "I recognize only one duty, and that is to love.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.

You must realize that men make war as much with the enthusiasm of those who want it as with the despair of those who reject it with all their soul.

How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is.

The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is king, but love saves us from it.

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.

When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that, ' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.

The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.

I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.

The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

Better one suffer than a nation grieve.

If we do not worship God, God will not be the lesser for it. But we will.

I'd rather be voted "the sexiest man in Denmark" than "the ugliest man in Denmark".

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.