To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.

Happiness is a big joke

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

An amiable weakness.

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

I like acting because I get to find different parts of myself, or at least create different parts that don't already exist, and see the world through someone else's eyes.

All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions.

A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.

Peering from some high window; at the gold of November sunset (and feeling that if day has to become night this is a beautiful way).

Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them with wisdom.