The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.

There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.

I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.

We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.