The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.

Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

To lie about a far country is easy

The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?