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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.

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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

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The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

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We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

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God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

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