To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.

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.