People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.

The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.

I don't think anything needs to happen in a book.

When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.

The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.

Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises.

The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, can defend Against itself. At its mercy, we depend Upon it.

I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.