People who praise illness as bringing out the best in people ought to have their heads examined. Pain forces you to think about yourself, directs your interest to your own body and what is happening to it. You don't reach out benevolently, filled with good will for others. You don't seem to care enough. Pain makes you a little person, not a big one, and not a nice one, except perhaps in the case of saints, and I've never known one.

What seems most likely is generally true.

minutes weren't given you to save but to spend. This is yours - now. Stop and live it.

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

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

gossip is just the small change of conversation.

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