It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots.

Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.

Only sick music makes money today.

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.

Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.

A thought comes when it will, not when I will.