Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously