It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

Style is to forget all styles.

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.

It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.