Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.

Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.

We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.'Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old.

I don't believe anyone who says love, love, love. It means self, self, self.

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim

Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we will not find it.

I wouldn't say it's competitive. I think everyone has their time. Gisele is having her time, and Shirley had her time, and maybe I will have my time.

We appear to be overplaying this global warming issue as global warming is nothing new. It has happened in the past, not once but several times, giving rise to glacial-interglacial cycles.

I'm loving motherhood. It's way harder than soccer, but I love a challenge.

I think if you do not enjoy your time, your life, if you do not live intensely and do not spend time with your family, in one way or another it will be reflected in your career.

What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?

Without local guides, your enemy employs the land as a weapon against you.

At the end of the day, I don't know what makes any artist say what he says. Everyone has a reason for whatever it is they do.

Scold your children, and they will know what is wrong; but correct them with love, and they will know what is right.