Thank God, I am still an atheist.

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply

I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.

If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'

Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any memory or culture

Christianity increases the scope and area of our lives.

Your body travels sometimes to somewhere but your mind travels every time to everywhere!

I find something new in the Bible every time I read it . . . that can be the experience of everyone who comes to it wanting to discover more of God’s truth.

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics.

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.