In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.