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

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.

There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant.

The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.

People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.

gossip is just the small change of conversation.