If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the decency to betray my country.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

Naked I came into this world, naked I shall go out of it. And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.