NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.

I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.