Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

Cats can be very funny, and have the oddest ways of showing they're glad to see you.

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.