Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

Tact is good taste in action.

Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

It is easier to win love than to keep it.

To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.

We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.

It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.

Let's be happy the way life takes shape, it is all decided and destined to be that way and we can't change anything unless we first change ourselves.

He's a real nowhere man, Sitting in his Nowhere Land, Making all his nowhere plansfor nobody.Doesn't have a point of view, Knows not where he's going to, Isn't he a bit like you and me?

Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.

Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations.

I don't think people should be primarily concerned with money or material success. They should be concerned with doing that which is right and being in harmony with the way of life.

Why would it be ridiculous that Quebec has an army?

The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored.

One must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just a beginning.

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.