"Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains."

"Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants."

"Fashion fades, only style remains the same."

"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."

"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."

"The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."

"It is a humble truth that he who inspires courage in a single soul has led a monumental campaign."

"If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble."