It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

The object of art is to give life shape.

A true friend will never stand in your allotted beam of light. They will get out of the way so you can grow, but they’ll stay nearby in case you need what they can offer.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.

Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them

Very often your attitude about why an accident or illness has happened has an effect on your recuperation.

May we try to listen and be silent in order to make space for the beauty of God.

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.

To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.