The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.

Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.

I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

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

You don't even live once.

The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.