In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes.