a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.

The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.

Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people.

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

The strength of weak people constantly appalls me. Have you ever seen a vine kill an oak tree? Deadly.

I always feel sorry for people who think more about a rainy day ahead than sunshine today.

Hatred is one of the poisons; like jaundice, it alters the true colors of things.