Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.