The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)

Help means give me a hand.

I saw the bathroom fixtures as a kind of American Trinity.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

I am never needlessly obscure - I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.

My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.

The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.

Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.

I don't like modeling, but in terms of the places I got to visit, it was great.

Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.