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

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

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

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

The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.

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.

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