There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.

Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.