If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

The thing I fear most is fear.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

I always found it so ironic, how the people from the past would do anything to see what happened everywhere else in the world that they lost so much of their own life watching this little screen.

Make use of every friend— and every foe.

Since my little daughter is only half Jewish would it be alright if she went into the pool only up to her waist?

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.

Ever make mistakes in life? Let's make them birds. Yeah, they're birds now.

Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle.

There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?

We are what we pretend to be.

Dear young people, the Church expects great things of you and your generosity. Don’t be afraid to aim high.

To truly love is to have the courage to walk away and let the other person who wishes to be free go no matter how much it hurts.