The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.

The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

If you can charm everyone it means you don't care about anyone in particular.

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.