The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.