There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.