The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

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

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

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

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

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

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.