"The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love"

"The biggest coward is a man who awakens a woman’s love with no intention of loving her"

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves"

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop"

"Buildings should serve people, not the other way around"

"Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people"

"Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded"

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

"He is not a lover who does not love forever"