Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh
Things are beautiful if you love them.
Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
I like reality. It tastes like bread.
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
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.
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
What you get free costs too much.
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
Nothing is irreparable in politics.
When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.
The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
Every man thinks god is on his side.
Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
