It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

It's not possible to search for God using the methods of a detective... There is no way. You can only wait till God's axe severs your roots: then you will understand that you are here only through a miracle, and you will remain fixed forever in wonderment and equilibrium.

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.