You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.

It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the fear changes into its opposite… The reversal of fear of being touched belongs to the nature of crowds. The feeling of relief is most striking where the density of the crowd is greatest

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.