Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

somehow at parties at which one stays standing up one seems to require to be more concentratedly intelligent than one does at those at which one can sit down.

Only those who are in-charge are tackled and criticized by others so criticism is something desirable and should not be resented.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Politics are a labyrinth without a clue.

When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director.

I think animal crackers make people think that all animals taste the same.

Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature.

I know a lot less about God, but the things I know about God, I know a whole lot more, for sure.

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.

Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.

I didn't have to wear a mask on Halloween to scare people, so I didn't need one to cover my face on the field!