A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.

I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Inspiration in matters of taste will not come twice.