Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
Don't borrow sorrow from tomorrow!
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
It is better to debate a question without deciding it than to decide it without debate.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
After bread, education is the first need of the people.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
My house is my castle.
One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.
A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.
Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor.
The idol of your self is the mother of all idols.
The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Taking shelter in the dead is death itself, and only taking all the risk of life to the fullest extent is living.
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions.
To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.
My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.
A woman's greatest power is her vulnerability.
I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway.
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
Older men declare war. But it is youth who must fight and die.
The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed.
Some people hate waking up and getting out of bed. I enjoy it. I do it three or four times a day.
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
What is life without the radiance of love?
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness ... It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
An actor is exactly as big as his imagination.
Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.
The decalogue is too short in comparison to means of making sins.
Learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.
Literature is my legal wife and medicine my mistress. When I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
