To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

The object of art is to give life shape.

Only job I know well is to spread happiness.

There is no economic law that says that everyone, or even most people, automatically benefit from technological progress.

One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.

You contain within yourself a unique combination of talents and abilities which, properly identified and applied, will enable you to achieve virtually any goal you can set for yourself.

Folks, this is perfect weather for today's game. Not a breath of air.

By wine eating cares are put to flight. [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]

In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.

I now understand more of our calling. The weakest instruments are chosen to do the greatest works so that the glory might go to God.

Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

I feel it gone, yet know not when it left.