When in doubt, always act on the assumption that people are more honorable than you have any solid reason for supposing they are.

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

And we were making a film I truly believed in, and the message of the film is "How do you make love stay?" Because it doesn't matter if someone has a memory or not, you have to reinvent love every day.

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

Even if my fellow man has proven faithless time after time, I can at least retain a hope that he will improve, pray for him, and think kindly without frustration and disappointment.

the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

I feared so-you're sentimental. You're not like me. I'm a romantic little materialist. I'm not sentimental-I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last-the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

I'm romantic - a sentimental person thinks things will last - a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

I broke a date for him. To-day I feel I'd break anything for him, including the ten commandments and my neck.

They made no love that day, but when he left her outside the sad door on the Zurichsee and she turned and looked at him he knew her problem was one they had together for good now.