When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

People were always asking for good sound proofs; doubt springs eternal in the human breast, even in countries where the Inquisition can read your very thoughts in your eyes.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.