To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless.

The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes.

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.

At last you are no longer searching for yourself, but for another-you are saved.

All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

The stage-play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.

During war we imprison the rights of man.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.