Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.

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.

Foreign to knowledge, mystery to senses, alien to emotion: LOVE.

Everybody wishes to have something that somebody else has. And that's the root of all sorrows.

The ability to make wise choices is the most valuable skill a person can develop.

For even if we know very little that is certain about spirit or soul, the true nature of the body, of materiality, is totally unknown and incomprehensible to us.

I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight

Nobody gets tired of being the champions. We are still trying to go after the title again.

It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.

The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.