A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

There are truths which can kill a nation.

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

There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.

Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!