Life is a dangerous adventure, says the American, and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it's not an adventure.

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress.

Those who are scandalized by a naked body--thinks the Devil--are easy prey: they are already doomed.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.