I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.

Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.