An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.
Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
The bourgeois are other people.
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.