Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.
We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
De omnibus dubitandum
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.
He who thinks little errs much.
The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.
People tell me I saved hundreds and hundreds of people. But I have to tell you: it’s not the people you saved that you remember. It’s the ones you couldn’t save. Those are the ones you talk about. Those are the faces and situations that stay with you forever.