Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction.

the fool is the one true cosmopolite - the one character common to all nationalities.

the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.

the true and the plausible are rarely the same.

Diamonds are the tears of the poor.

At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all.

To the Latin, cynicism and middle age are synonymous. Look at our politicians - they move through their careers from left to center to right, like the hands of a clock.