An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot run with his son, but he can totter with his grandson. Our first and last steps have the same rhythm.

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

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

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

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.