The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

As we don't live in a perfect world, try to spend 80% of your time doing important but not urgent activities

In 1988, Christmas, that was my last performance because I moved to Hawaii to raise my son.

Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.

'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I don't need anything.' 'You poor boy.

People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.

I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.

Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?

I can't wait to get off the stage, because I've got some LifeSavers in my pocket and pineapple is next!

I asked my priest if it was a sin to play golf on Sunday. And he said, "It's a sin for you to play anytime."