To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

To love is to will the good of the other.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

A body without compassion is like the rose without the scent.

Would you buy potato chips that listed potato by-product or potato digest as an ingredient

Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.

I would wager that the number of civilians that were killed [in] a typical week under Saddam Hussein was probably more than we killed during the weeks we were at war there.

Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power.

You don't have to have a language in common with someone for a sexual rapport. But it helps if the language you don't understand is Italian.

Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring.

My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.

At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.