The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Are you quite sure that you want to hear it?" he asked. "Sometimes, Maria, a story that one hears starts one off doing things that one would not have had to do if one had not heard it.

New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information.

The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision.

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

There's never been a good government.

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.

Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.

If I knew where creativity came from, I'd probably be a lot less stressed about coming up with new stories.