I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

Success is the result achieved when nobody answers.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

Near a war is always not very near.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.