There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There's only the most superficial resemblance between the two of them. Nothing is handed on from one to the other.

A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate the imagination. We are poets!

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them.