Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.