Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.
Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.
He that leaveth nothing to Chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow from them.
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
I am sitting in the smallest room in my house. I have your review in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.
A dimple in the chin; a devil within.
There are men who are happy without knowing it.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing.
Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
Faith is the soul's adventure.
As in political, so in literary action, a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices.