The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.

The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

The world will be saved by one or two people.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.