To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty..

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success..

Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment..

Theology is the logic of the Devil..

Who learns most from a good book is the author..

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love..

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin..

When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything..

Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round..

The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst..

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom..

In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress..

The only time a man thinks is when he's alone..

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's..

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition..

When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done..

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime..

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all..

A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation..

What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable..