I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
When men reach their sixties and retire they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.
I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.
I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
Rumi who is one of the greatest Persian poets said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.