When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Love taught me that your honour did but jest.

It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.

One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.