If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

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.

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.

Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies.

It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.