From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.

Integrity needs no rules.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.

Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

Murder is terribly exhausting.