A failure is not always a mistake it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace making the best of circumstances.

Far from creating a new formalism what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.

My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie which made me opt for it.

Oh! this opponent this collaborator against your will whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.

For every moment of triumph for every instance of beauty many souls must be trampled.

I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance I suppose or it should be.