To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

To be adult is to be alone.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the animalness of the animal.

It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires a kind of philosophical thinking, thinking in terms of epochs.

Staying present, living in Presence is the best gift anyone can give to those they love.

It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.

You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does.

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

No pressure, no diamonds.