The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.

Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.

Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.

No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.

Oh, I'm not just going too far, I've arrived.

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die... that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn.

Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.