A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

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

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.