Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

Everything that is popular is wrong.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.