The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.