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

The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.

Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.

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.