As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Common sense is not so common.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

A person preaches well that lives well.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.