Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.

All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.

Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.