Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

each generation has something different at which they are all looking.

I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.