“If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.”

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

The more a man knows, the less he talks.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor

I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Should I peel a cap or should I let him survive?

Love alone allows man to forget himself… it alone can still redeem even the darkest hours of the past since it alone finds the courage to believe in the mercy of the holy God.

Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.

You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Maybe we don’t put our young people in situations often enough where they’re allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don’t fail as often.

Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.