The most important thing in the world is family and love.
The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Silence is become his mother tongue.
The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art," and everything is O. K. Rotting corpses with snails crawling over them are O. K. ; kicking little girls in the head is O. K. ; even a film like L'Age d'Or is O. K.
There is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant.
The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit. . . One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts.