To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

It's better to bet on this life than on the next.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.

Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right.

Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot get rid of it, one has to face it.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.