“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.”

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

I can resist everything except temptation.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.