A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.